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Theresa May ’s new policy guru has a plan to slash employment rights and cut wages for workers in poorer areas.

MP George Freeman , made head of Mrs May’s policy board last week, also believes people working in new firms should have no employment rights, possibly including maternity pay, paid leave and minimum wage .

And he says Britain’s biggest firms should pay just 10% corporation tax.

Labour say by hiring him, Mrs May has revealed a true right-wing agenda.

Shadow Cabinet Minister Jonathan Ashworth said: “These are unfair policies that are bad for working people.”

The proposals are all included in a policy paper Mr Freeman co-wrote three years ago with fellow Tory Kwasi Kwarteng. A year later he was appointed as a junior Health Minister.

After his appointment by Mrs May, he boasted his new role will be to “help shape the new Government’s programme” and guide “the deep economic and social reforms we need to make”.

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Mrs May has insisted her Government will seek to help working people rather than just “the privileged few”.

But in Mr Freeman’s June 2013 paper called The Innovation Economy Industrial Policy for the 21st Century, he says both minimum wages and public sector pay should be “regionalised”.

And he suggested: “We should exempt new firms for their first three years from employers’ national insurance, business rates, corporation tax and employment legislation.”

As well as halving corporation tax for the biggest firms, he also said green energy subsidies could be “abolished”.

Mr Ashworth added: “The new Prime Minister may offer warm words about reaching out and putting working people first – but her actions show that those at the top of the Tory Party will do nothing for working people.”

Both Downing Street and Mr Freeman declined to comment.