by Sunny Hundal

A top advisor to Cameron has advocated abandon worker and consumer rights in a desperate attempt to kick-start economic growth.

The front-page of the Financial Times tomorrow says Steve Hilton is leading a “crusade” against employment laws, maternity leave and consumer rights.

The story also contains this anecdote:

Steve [Hilton] asked why the PM had to obey the law,” according to one Whitehall insider of a meeting in March to discuss the government’s growth strategy. “Jeremy had to explain that if David Cameron breaks the law he could be put in prison.”

Oh and he had this bright idea too…

While looking at ways to cut the deficit, he suggested abolishing hundreds of government press officers and replacing them with a single person in each department who would communicate via a blog.

It gets better…

“He also wanted to suspend all consumer rights legislation for nine months to see what would happen”

This guy is in the inner circle?