He cannot get to supervise the bedroom tax,and disability and other benefit sanctions, and walk absent with clean hands Over the past five years, and I’ve spoken to people who hold genuinely dreamed of the day Iain Duncan Smith would resign: mothers forced to live off toast to support a roof over their child’s head because of the bedroom tax,Parkinsons patients reduced to tears during a “fit for work” assessment, sisters grieving for brothers who died after having their benefits taken.
That’s the power of the man we can now finally call the former work and pensions secretary: a politician who not only embodied the Conservative government’s most zealous cuts to Britain’s welfare state but who became a hate figure – a source of daily fear – to people whom he will never even meet.
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Source: theguardian.com