Duncan Smith, Britain’s labour minister, has quit his position over planned cuts to disability welfare payments, further deepening the rifts in Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party.



His replacement, Stephen Crabb, was appointed by the prime minister on Saturday.

Smith, a Conservative cabinet minister who opposed Cameron’s campaign for Britain to stay in the EU ahead of an in-out referendum, described the proposed cuts as “a compromise too far.”

“While they are defensible in narrow terms, given the continuing deficit, they are not defensible in the way they were placed within a budget that benefits higher earning taxpayers,” Smith said.

Cameron said he was “puzzled and disappointed” by the one-time Conservative leader’s decision to quit.

Defence Minister Michael Fallon said that the budget had been approved by all cabinet ministers ahead of a speech by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.



Osborne said that Duncan Smith’s own ministry had suggested the cuts.

Osborne, who had overseen a service of public spending cuts since taking office in 2010, presented the budget to parliament on Wednesday.

Cuts to benefits for disabled people and the chronically ill foresaw annual savings of around 1.3 billion pounds (1.9 billion dollars).

The measures drew strong criticism from the opposition, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accusing the minister of fuelling “more poverty and inequality.”

The race to succeed Cameron, who said he would not run in 2020 general elections, had already begun in Britain.

Osborne, also a Conservative, has been tipped as Cameron’s favourite but faces internal party opposition. (NAN)

http://www.financialwatchngr.com/2016/03/20/british-labour-minister-resigns-protest-cuts-disability-welfare/

Africa shouldn't share planets with other continents..

Our way different I swear..

Dark continent, dark ages , dark heart, dark times.

How I take enter here sef?

Pelzon dey resign untop such matter... E no fit happen for here..

Dem go even chop disabled money for my country.

See good intention with bad approach.
As a minister, he is better positioned to influence or fight for certain actions, but now of what benefit is his resignation?

MKO4ever:
See good intention with bad approach.
As a minister, he is better positioned to influence or fight for certain actions, but now of what benefit is his resignation?

People become aware.. The next minister has to tell the public what he intends doing about the matter at hand.

Even if he was to be appointed.. He still owes the public that information.

good leaders were meant to serve
i don't see this happening in nigeria
in the next millennium maybe it will or perhaps the next century
but not in this generation, that is certain