My view is pensioners don’t have the one option that people of working age have. They can’t really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work. Iain Duncan Smith Read Quote
Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you’re of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not. Iain Duncan Smith Read Quote
Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife. Iain Duncan Smith Read Quote
Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won’t get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere. Iain Duncan Smith Read Quote
We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them. Iain Duncan Smith Read Quote
In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours. Iain Duncan Smith Read Quote
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage. Iain Duncan Smith Read Quote
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’ Iain Duncan Smith Read Quote
With high underemployment – currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours – sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair. Iain Duncan Smith Read Quote
You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we’ve had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it. Iain Duncan Smith Read Quote
