Iain Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary
Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Iain Duncan Smith whose Work and Pensions Department will be hit during next week's Spending Review. His proposed welfare reforms have been described as 'the biggest since the war-time work of Beveridge' and a white paper is expected after the Spending Review.
Iain Duncan Smith started out briefly in industry after leaving the army where he served twice in Northern Ireland. His father was a famous World War II flying ace & his mother a ballerina.
In the 1990s, he was best-known as one of the Tory party's most strident euro-sceptic MPs. His short two year leadership…
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