The work and pensions secretary said changes to benefits were ‘indefensible in the context of this week’s budget’Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions secretary over cuts to disability benefits,in the most dramatic cabinet departure of David Cameron’s leadership.
In a sign that divisions over Europe occupy heightened tensions in the Conservatives, the former party leader stormed out of his job, or saying he thought the cuts to welfare for disabled people known as personal independence payments (PIP) were a “compromise too far”.
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Source: theguardian.com