Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink

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His concern was contained in a memo to the then cabinet secretary, Sir Richard Wilson, in March 2000. Cameron said that his aim in writing the book was to "correct the record" where he thought it was wrong. Administratively incompetent, vainly overambitious, barely comprehending his own department’s numbers, Duncan Smith was kept in place as secretary of state for work and pensions because he could say without blenching that the poor were skivers and scroungers who were overbreeding. Owen Jones is a columnist at the Guardian and a former columnist at the Independent, as well as a regular TV/radio broadcaster and public speaker. The book’s biggest fan was Rowan Williams, who remarked in his New Statesman notice that “this is very much what a literary biography should be”.

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Nick Clegg and David Cameron announce the coalition government’s policy programme at a press conference in the rose garden of No 10 Downing Street. King told Armstrong that the Mirror had simply “cooled” towards the Wilson premiership owing to the fact he “was no prime minister”. In 1981, Cecil King wrote to the cabinet secretary, accusing Harold Wilson of feeding the coup allegation to the press.

On her watch a mighty constitutional change occurred in the 2011 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, which upset a 180-year-old precedent by putting the police in England and Wales under the direct supervision of politicians. Geoff Jacobs, managing director at Interpath Advisory and joint liquidator, said: “Our intention is to retain six employees for a period of time to continue the provision of certain head office functions to the wider group entities where appropriate to do so and we will also seek to realise the shares in certain subsidiaries. In 2013, Lord Freud, the employment minister, sniffed at “an almost infinite demand for a free good”, apparently unaware that use of food banks is carefully rationed by vouchers from councils and his own jobcentres. In his bid to rip apart the social security safety net that has been in place since 1945, Cameron found the ideal lieutenant in Iain Duncan Smith. David Cameron was accused of playing into the hands of rightwing extremists today as he delivered a controversial speech on the failings of multiculturalism within hours of one of the biggest anti-Islam rallies ever staged in Britain.

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Remedies came in the form of the intrusive medical tests, the Work Programme, abolition of the emergency social fund and frozen benefits. The economy exceeded its pre-recession peak but only after years of stagnation, leaving GDP per capita well below its previous level. These developments were foreseeable, but even Cameron’s fiercest critics might not have expected that during its five years in office, the government would go on to jeopardise the unity of the UK itself and threaten Britain’s standing in the world. Who knows what goes on over country suppers in the Cotswolds, where the prime minister’s neighbours include Rebekah Wade and Rupert Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth, with Mark Carney’s sister-in-law and lobbying magnate Lord Chadlington next door?It’s true that the budget for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) constitutes 23% of public spending. More “hardworking families” qualified for tax credits because with jobs increasingly low-paid and part-time, they needed the state top-up to survive.