In first interview since resigning,former minister says PM and chancellor’s ‘arbitrary’ attempts to prick welfare risk dividing societyThe civil war engulfing the Conservatives has intensified after Iain Duncan Smith launched an attack on the government’s austerity programme for balancing the books on the backs of the destitute and vulnerable.
In his first interview since dramatically resigning from the cabinet on Friday night, the former Tory party leader revealed the scale of his unhappiness with the way David Cameron and George Osborne run Downing Street, and saying their “arbitrary” attempts to prick welfare risk dividing society.
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Source: theguardian.com