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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The end of an era?
T2 - the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith, Conservatism and social security benefits for disabled people
AU - Grover, Chris
PY - 2016/9/13
Y1 - 2016/9/13
N2 - Iain Duncan Smith resigned as the UK?s Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in March 2016. While not invisible from the debate following his resignation, the fact that changes to social security policy for disabled people were central to Duncan Smith?s time as Secretary of State and central to his (at least public) reasons for resignation was lost in a focus on the internal machinations of the UK?s Conservative Party. In this short article, Duncan Smith's resignation is used to examine the location of additional cost social security benefits for disabled people in Conservative thinking in contemporary Britain.
AB - Iain Duncan Smith resigned as the UK?s Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in March 2016. While not invisible from the debate following his resignation, the fact that changes to social security policy for disabled people were central to Duncan Smith?s time as Secretary of State and central to his (at least public) reasons for resignation was lost in a focus on the internal machinations of the UK?s Conservative Party. In this short article, Duncan Smith's resignation is used to examine the location of additional cost social security benefits for disabled people in Conservative thinking in contemporary Britain.
KW - Austerity
KW - benefits
KW - Conservatism
KW - cuts
KW - disabled people
KW - social security
KW - work
U2 - 10.1080/09687599.2016.1218153
DO - 10.1080/09687599.2016.1218153
M3 - Journal article
VL - 31
SP - 1127
EP - 1131
JO - Disability and Society
JF - Disability and Society
SN - 0968-7599
IS - 8
ER -