Key argument is damning: that Cameron and Osborne went after welfare because working destitute would never vote ToryIain Duncan Smith spent five years in opposition drawing up plans to overhaul welfare; universal credit was the entire basis of his decision to co-found the Centre for Social Justice thinktank. His key argument today is that his desire to roll out those reforms was the only reason he entered government – an ambition to drive a social justice agenda that would serve people into work.
What he hadn’t realised was going to happen was the 2008 financial crash that would devastate the economic landscape in which he would enter the Department for Work and Pensions. Duncan Smith said he knew that government would require “compromise” but he wanted to attain it to try to deliver his plans.
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Source: theguardian.com