Iain Duncan Smith

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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.


— Iain Duncan Smith


#hard #hard work #life #life is hard #luck

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.


— Iain Duncan Smith


#always #anything #elected #favour #gives

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.


— Iain Duncan Smith


#age #because #income #increase #longer

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.


— Iain Duncan Smith


#interested #out #politics #westminster #who

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.


— Iain Duncan Smith


#frowned #mainstream #marriage #mentions #over

People work hard.


— Iain Duncan Smith


#people #work #work hard

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.


— Iain Duncan Smith


#children #fashion #having #kids #like

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.


— Iain Duncan Smith


#bbc #borrow #create #economy #ed

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.


— Iain Duncan Smith


#become #britain #cities #communities #completely

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.


— Iain Duncan Smith


#costs #family #financial #high #incredibly






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The introduction of the universal credit under the Government’s welfare reforms will mean that people returning to work from benefits will continue to receive some state support. Subsequently a petition was started on change. Individuals will be told they must earn a minimum amount each week from their jobs and will face being stripped of their housing benefit and tax credits if they fall short under the plan.

In 2003 Conservative MPs passed a Vote of No Confidence in Duncan Smith as many considered him unable to return the party to government. He is the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and was leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to October 2003. He resigned and was succeeded as party leader by Michael Howard.