A Conservative candidate in a key marginal seat who made "inexcusable" comments about people with learning difficulties also posted on Facebook that "multiculturalism" had harmed Europe.



Sally-Ann Hart, who is running to replace former Tory cabinet minister Amber Rudd in the ultra-marginal seat of Hastings and Rye, was criticised on Friday after she was filmed at a hustings saying that some people with learning disabilities could be paid less than the minimum wage because "they don’t understand money".

Scope, a charity for people with disabilities, condemned Hart's remarks in a statement: “These opinions are outdated, inexcusable, and should be consigned to history. Disabled people should be paid equally for the work that they do.”