The former head of welfare-to-work firm A4e Emma Harrison claims she was bullied out of her job as Prime Minister David Cameron’s ‘Family Champion’ amid fraud investigations into her company.

In an interview on Channel 4 News last night [24 October], Harrison defended A4e, which was accused of fraud and under-performing for the government’s work programme, and claimed she was “bullied out of her job” by politicians.

In the interview she repeatedly defended A4e and denied accusations that the firm missed targets set by the government. She said the figures suggested – that the taxpayer is having to foot the bill of around £13,500 for each unemployed person it found a job – were wrong but she failed to provide the correct figures.

She stated: “What really, really matters is that through the work programme tens of thousands of people are getting jobs.”