Iain Duncan Smith to Signal Further Welfare Crackdown

Iain Duncan Smith is to signal a further crackdown on welfare in a speech suggesting that changes to the benefit system have lowered unemployment. The work and pensions secretary is set to tell an audience in London that ‘the number of households where nobody had ever worked doubled’ under Labour and that welfare reform is ‘changing our country for the better’. ‘Fixing society at the same time as the economy, matching a firm economic settlement to a firm social settlement; and in so doing putting this country on a path to a more productive, more dynamic, and ultimately a more contented, future,’ he will say. Mr Duncan Smith will claim that immigration to the United Kingdom has been a ‘supply and demand issue’. Read more on Inside Housing.