Editing Iain Duncan Smith (section)

==Return to the backbenches==
[[File:Iain Duncan Smith Nightingale 2.JPG|thumb|300px|Duncan Smith at Nightingale House, London, in March 2010 in his role as Chair of the Social Justice Policy Group|alt=]]

The same week as [[Michael Howard]] succeeded him, Duncan Smith's novel ''[[The Devil's Tune]]'' was released to negative critical reception.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3242959.stm |title='I hate to kick a man when he's down, but...' |work=BBC News |date=6 November 2003 |access-date=23 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070907121805/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3242959.stm |archive-date=7 September 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> In November 2003, he was appointed by Howard to the Conservative Party's advisory council, along with [[John Major]], [[William Hague]] and [[Kenneth Clarke]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Jones |first=George |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1446420/Hague-and-IDS-on-panel-of-four-wise-men.html |title=Hague and IDS on panel of "four wise men" |newspaper=Telegraph |date=11 November 2003 |access-date=17 April 2010 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113051230/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1446420/Hague-and-IDS-on-panel-of-four-wise-men.html |archive-date=13 November 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2004, Duncan Smith established the [[Centre for Social Justice]], a [[centre-right]] [[think tank]] working with small charities with the aim of finding innovative policies for tackling [[poverty]].<ref name=":3" /> On 7 December 2005, he was appointed Chairman of the Social Justice Policy Group, which was facilitated by the Centre for Social Justice.<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=37|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060718094909/http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=37|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 July 2006|publisher=Centre for Social Justice press release|title=The CSJ confirms changes to senior team|access-date=7 July 2010}}</ref> His deputy chair was Debbie Scott, the Chief Executive of the charity Tomorrow's People. The group released two major reports, ''Breakdown Britain'' and ''Breakthrough Britain''. ''Breakdown Britain'' was a 300,000 word document that analysed what was going wrong in the areas of economic dependence and unemployment, family breakdown, addiction, educational failure, indebtedness, and the voluntary sector.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=180 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707035616/http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=180 |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 July 2007 |title=Breakdown Britain |publisher=The Centre for Social Justice |date=14 December 2006 |access-date=17 April 2010}}</ref> ''Breakthrough Britain'' recommended almost two hundred policy ideas using broadly the same themes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=182 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819074626/http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=182 |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 August 2007 |title=Breakthrough Britain |publisher=The Centre for Social Justice |access-date=17 April 2010}}</ref>

Duncan Smith was re-elected comfortably in Chingford and Woodford Green at the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]], almost doubling his majority, from 5,487 to 10,641.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iainduncansmith.org/text.aspx?id=32 |title=Iain Duncan Smith |publisher=Chingford and Woodford Green News |access-date=9 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927162857/http://www.iainduncansmith.org/text.aspx?id=32 |archive-date=27 September 2012 }}</ref> In September 2006, he was one of fourteen authors of a report concerning [[antisemitism]] in Britain.<ref>{{Cite news|date=7 September 2006|title=MPs deliver anti-Semitism report|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5319716.stm|access-date=10 June 2020|archive-date=8 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108114245/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5319716.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> He was also one of the only early supporters of the [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|Iraq troop surge]] policy in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2007/01/key_conservativ.html|title=ConservativeHome's ToryDiary: Key Conservative contributions to yesterday's Iraq debate|publisher=Conservativehome.blogs.com|date=25 January 2007|access-date=17 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415102738/http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2007/01/key_conservativ.html|archive-date=15 April 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=blog|date=August 2024}}