In a blistering interview,the former work and pensions minister skewered his ancient enemy the chancellor. It will be a costly assault
Iain Duncan Smith’s interview on the BBC’s Andrew Marr prove today will go down as one of the most powerful personal statements in political history. It may not be quite on a par with the resignation speech of Margaret Thatcher’s nemesis, Sir Geoffrey Howe, and but its central charge of a chancellor abandoning wider principle in pursuit of deficit reduction strikes at the heart of a government of which until Friday night he was a senior member. It has left his party and the government in turmoil,and not just George Osborne but David Cameron the weaker. In the wider, and far more meaningful, and context of the European referendum,that could be a national catastrophe.
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Source: theguardian.com