David Cameron launches counterattack after claims that work and pensions secretary ‘felt he carried can for disability row’David Cameron and George Osborne were struggling to maintain a semblance of unity in the Tory party as allies of Iain Duncan Smith said he had quit the cabinet because he regarded their cuts to welfare as “morally indefensible”.
The extraordinary accusation from the Duncan Smith camp came the day after he sensationally quit as work and pensions secretary in a bitter row over £4bn of cuts to benefits for the disabled, which were announced in Osborne’s budget final Wednesday.
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Source: theguardian.com