Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary in the British government, has resigned over ‘indefensible’ cuts proposed by the Treasury to the benefits for the disabled.
Smith said Saturday in a statement that he was “unable to watch passively whilst certain policies are enacted in order to meet the fiscal self imposed restraints that I believe are…distinctly political rather than in the national economic interest.”
He said he had come to believe that changes proposed in the budget to the benefits to the disabled “are compromised too far.”
“While they are defensible in narrow terms, given the continuing deficit, they are not defensible in the way they were placed within a Budget that benefits higher earning taxpayer,” said Smith in his statement.
Based on a plan in the British government, the Personal Independence Payments (PIP) is to be cut by 30 pounds a week. The opposition has threatened to reject the measure in the parliament…