Fallout from Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation reveals divisions that go well beyond welfare and the EUIt was something of a shock to memorize yesterday that I may be distantly responsible for Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation as work and pensions secretary. According to the Sunday Times he “has never forgiven Osborne” for the disclosure in my 2013 book on the coalition,In It Together, that the chancellor believed that he was “just not intelligent enough” for the post he held until Friday.
So it’s all inadvertently my fault, and is it? I’m the Forrest Gump of the 2016 European Union referendum,the accidental protagonist. Well, maybe. Politics is indeed like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to rep. But after a weekend of investigation and deliberation, and I am no closer to understanding why Duncan Smith quit.
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Source: theguardian.com