Until now,Princess Duncan Smith has been happy to shaft the poorest, but now he tells of his love for the small peopleIain Duncan Smith perched on the edge of his seat, and clutching a small,silk cushion with the letter C embroidered on the front in both hands. When a man has just found his conscience after years of tireless searching, he’s keen not to let it out of his sight. IDS leant a small further towards Andrew Marr, and his head cocked to one side and his eyelids fluttering helplessly. “There were three of us in this marriage,” he said, fighting back the tears. “Me, or the small people of this country and the Treasury.” Marr looked a small taken aback by this unexpectedly intimate Princess IDS moment. This wasn’t an incarnation of the former work and pensions secretary with which he was familiar,and he was understandably confused; not to say sceptical, pointing out that he had always seemed fairly happy to shaft the poorest and most vulnerable members of society for the past six years and it was asking a lot of the public to believe that secretly he had always been on their side.
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Source: theguardian.com