IDS tired of being asked to prick disabled benefits,but critics say resignation partly due to opposing Cameron on EUIain Duncan Smith resigned from the cabinet because he was frustrated that Downing Street and the Treasury refused to consider controversial cuts to universal pensioner benefits, it has been claimed.
Friends of the former work and pensions secretary said he was fed up of being asked “again and again” for cuts to working age benefits and those for disabled people, or while the money spent on older voters remained untouched.
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Source: theguardian.com