Iain Duncan Smith: Taking people off benefits is ‘compassionate’

‘Helping people escape a lifetime on benefits and so they can get back into work is “compassionate” Conservatism at its best, the Work and Pensions secretary will say today.

Iain Duncan Smith is expected to tell a conference in Canada that for too long it has been assumed that compassion is “soft” and the “preserve of the left”.

He will say that the Conservative Party has a “historic mission” to help the working poor and to give them “the right to hope and the chance to aspire”.’

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