The blind fury of the Euro-sceptic Tories
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Iain Duncan Smith was not one of those ministers we heard serial encomiums about when he was actually in office. A former backbench rebel against John Major, he was thrust unprepared into the leadership of the Tory party, from which role he was ignominiously ousted by his fellow MPs a couple of years later. He is now, of course, the best Work and Pensions Secretary we've ever had, a reformer of remarkable quality who has sacrificed his career in order to warn the Tory party of the dangers it faces under its current evil, election winning leader.
Mr. Duncan Smith's past and present are useful fables on the wider problem of the Conservative party as a whole. He was elected as a leader in what became a two-way contest against Kenneth Clarke. Clarke was by far the most experienced of the two, as well as having a popularity in the world outside the Tory party. He may have been a consummate politician, but he also had character and an appeal as a "…
Iain Duncan Smith was not one of those ministers we heard serial encomiums about when he was actually in office. A former backbench rebel against John Major, he was thrust unprepared into the leadership of the Tory party, from which role he was ignominiously ousted by his fellow MPs a couple of years later. He is now, of course, the best Work and Pensions Secretary we've ever had, a reformer of remarkable quality who has sacrificed his career in order to warn the Tory party of the dangers it faces under its current evil, election winning leader.
Mr. Duncan Smith's past and present are useful fables on the wider problem of the Conservative party as a whole. He was elected as a leader in what became a two-way contest against Kenneth Clarke. Clarke was by far the most experienced of the two, as well as having a popularity in the world outside the Tory party. He may have been a consummate politician, but he also had character and an appeal as a "…