By Jess Jones A minister has defended a £15,000 payout of taxpayer money to settle a libel case after tech secretary Michelle Donelan falsely accused two academics of “sharing extremist views” and one of supporting Hamas. Speaking on LBC radio, financial secretary to the Treasury, Nigel Huddleston, said: “She’s obviously apologised and a payment has been made but it’s not out of the ordinary. If she wasn’t a cabinet minister, if she wasn’t a minister, she wouldn’t have been put in that position.” He was being grilled by presenter Tom Swarbrick on whether Donelan was right to pay for her libel …