IDS

IDS's welfare plans if enacted would be expensive (he admits they will initially cost more money than the current system) and for that reason I'm sceptical they will happen. But anyway, this article says:

Iain Duncan Smith, the first former Conservative leader to serve in the cabinet since Sir Alec Douglas-Home 40 years ago.

What about Hague, William Hague?

And this seems rather an oversight. I guess they need to invest, sorry spend, on a fleet of motorbike couriers.

pa In the Telegraph IDS says "it is not “sustainable” for Britain to carry on spending almost 14 per cent of its national income on welfare". This isn't really true, is it? If that is the figure then Britain currently has as much to spend on non-welfare as it had to spend on everything in the year 2001 or thereabouts. Advocates of a Citizen's Basic Income believe the country could, should, spend about 30% of its national income on 'welfare'.