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The former Tory leader resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary with a scathing attack on the Chancellor's «political» cuts to the most vulnerable.

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Commenting on the judicial review on the indexation of public sector pensions, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The NUT, along with other unions, is challenging the Government in a judicial review at the High Court.

The report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a right - wing thinktank, agrees with the principles behind the work and pensions secretary's plans, but insists the reforms do not go far enough.

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith reportedly had a stand - up row with chief whip Patrick McLoughlin about the issue, in which he threatened to resign if put in a similar position again.

The former work and pensions secretary said he was disappointed with the decision by Javid to join the remain camp — because his Tory colleague had privately said that he backed Brexit.

The Department for Work and Pensions must halt its damaging cuts programme, the secretary of state for work and pensions Chris Grayling will be told on Wednesday (14) at a meeting with the Public and Commercial ServicePensions must halt its damaging cuts programme, the secretary of state for work and pensions Chris Grayling will be told on Wednesday (14) at a meeting with the Public and Commercial Servicepensions Chris Grayling will be told on Wednesday (14) at a meeting with the Public and Commercial Services union.

The former director general of Saga, who only held the ministerial brief for 14 months and was known to have had a rocky relationship with former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, said the triple lock had «fulfilled its purpose» and pensioner households were now «no more likely to be poor than other age groups».

The Treasury clashed with work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith last year during the spending review over the planned shakeup.

Tens of thousands of teachers across the north - west will be taking strike action today (Thursday 27 June) as a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions» dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs.

For example, the Work and Pensions Secretary claimed he could get by on # 53 a week and met with such derision that a petition calling on him to prove it attracted hundreds of thousands of signatories within a couple of days.

The ABI worked closely with Theresa May's Home Office team on successful reform of riot damages legislation and with her personally during her time as an impressive shadow Work & Pensions Secretary.

Jim Knight - Labour The work and pensions secretary became another high - profile casualty when he lost his seat of Dorset South with a 9.3 per cent swing to the Conservatives.

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber: «The speech contains important issues to welcome - restoring the state pension link with earnings, cracking down on high - risk activities in the City, and an extra push on green energy.

«This report confirms that this government has become obsessed with meeting centrally set targets at the expense of delivering the benefits and services which will do most to lift pensioners out of poverty,» said shadow work and pension secretary Philip Hammond.

With two reports published this week which criticised Iain Duncan Smith's flagship Universal Credit programme, our next piece looked at his record as work and pensions secretary and all the times he has got it badly wrong.

Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, insisted in an interview with the Today programme on Thursday morning that the policy was not punitive but was designed to get people the skills they needed to secure a job.

In an interview with yesterday's Guardian, with the headline, «X Factor culture fuelled the UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith», the Work and Pensions Secretary said:

At a keynote speech at Age UK's conference two weeks ago, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith outlined his key principles for pension reform, with a focus on the next generation of pensioners and making it pay for current workers to save for retirement.

The party leader is up against former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Owen Smith, with the winner due to be announced on 24 September.

Speaking earlier today, Mr Smith, the former shadow work and pensions Secretary, said he wanted to take on Mr Corbyn in the contest and insisted judges should not «interfere» with the party's ruling.

«We have become, in many corners of the country, with our voters, a laughing stock, and we have got to change that,» the former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said.

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne insists the majority of people confronted with, what Labour is calling the «bedroom tax», have no where to move to.

Former shadow work and pensions secretary Mr Smith - who quit the Labour frontbench along with more than 60 of his colleagues - today vowed to be a «radical, credible» alternative to Mr Corbyn as leader.

Last week, Yvette Cooper — a seasoned Labour hand who has had government experience both as work and pensions secretary and as chief secretary to the Treasury, and is perhaps Burnham's greatest leadership rival — suggested she agreed with Miliband's refusal to accept blame.

Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb is hugely popular in the Conservative parliamentary party and comes from the sort of ordinary background that chimes with many voters.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of RiversPension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Riverspension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Even if it comes to office with a healthy majority, when the next Conservative government is formed, serious consideration should be given to offering Labour MP Frank Field the position of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, said EU migrants should wait for up to two years before being able to claim benefits rather than the current period of three months.

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is among those who have publicly suggested Britain could prosper from outside the EU - a view fundamentally at odds with that of the deputy prime minister.

«In the 1990s people were written off on incapacity benefit with no help to overcome their problems or support to get them into work,» said James Purnell, work and pensions secretary.

The work and pensions secretary celebrated the surprise announcement with some vigour, leaving onlookers unclear as to whether he had described the move as «fantastic» or opted for a more earthy response.

He added that he now wants the current culture secretary Sajid Javid to do the same, along with work and pensions sec Iain Duncan Smith and even David Cameron:

Speaking after today's (27) meeting with ministers over the government's plans to cut public sector pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said.

The personal flaws of the work and pensions secretary are replicated with uncanny precision at the department which he runs.

The work and pensions secretary made his first public pitch to become prime minister with the business secretary, Sajid Javid, by his side at an awkward event that began half an hour late and at which Crabb tried to call on journalists who were not present to ask questions.

Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said continuing to pay for properties with spare bedrooms would have cost the equivalent of # 32 for every household in the country.

Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves said millions of working families would lose money if the reports were true and urged Cameron to «come clean with the public about their plans to cut child benefit and child tax credits».

A difficult day for the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith with a critical report from the National Audit Office on the implementation of the Universal Credit leading the news bulletins.

Stephen Crabb, the work and pensions secretary, said: «UC is transforming welfare and is central to our vision for our society where people of all backgrounds can earn a decent wage and provide for their families, with claimants moving into work faster and earning more than under the old system.

The fate of UC, which is several years behind its original schedule after delays caused by management failings and IT design problems, has been the subject of speculation since its champion, the former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, resigned in March after years of clashes with the Treasury.

Work and Pensions shadow secretary Rachel Reeves went as far as to say she has had conversations with German, French and Irish officials who seemed to be supportive of Labour's migration plans, forgetting that the governments in Tallinn or Warsaw may have a very different view on the matter.

Adopting a line taken by ministers throughout the week, a spokesman for the parliamentary under - secretary of state for pensions reform said: «All her claims were in line with the relevant House of Commons rules and guidance and have been approved by the Fees Office.»

The work and pensions secretary insisted the money spent on the system, which is intended to manage the implementation of universal credit, was roughly in line with what the private sector would expect to lose on a major IT project.

Labour's work and pensions secretary, Douglas Alexander, quickly offered to work with Mr Hughes to fight the proposal.

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (with responsibility for the policy review) Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP

One Labour source suggested that Ed Miliband had «dithered» over the decision and that some MPs were not pleased with how the shadow work and pensions secretary had been treated over that period.

But Lib Dem sources claimed details of the proposals have yet to be agreed and the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, was siding with them in the internal debate.

And Work and Pensions Secretary Mr Crabb, in a joint interview with his running mate Sajid Javid in the Mail on Sunday, said he had more experience than Mrs Thatcher had when she became leader.

11.07 am: Cameron has got Theresa May, the shadow work and pensions secretary, and John Maples with him, sitting in the front seats behind where Cameron is sitting.

The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Rachel Reeves is expecting to debate the issue with a more junior minister from the government department.