Editing Iain Duncan Smith (section)

=== Cameron majority government ===
In August 2015, Duncan Smith was criticised after the DWP admitted publishing fake testimonies of claimants enjoying their benefits cuts.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ashley Cowburn|date=19 August 2015|title=Welfare office made up quotes from 'happy benefits claimants'|work=[[The Times]]|location=London|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/welfare-office-made-up-quotes-from-happy-benefits-claimants-pjq38j57x32|url-status=live|url-access=subscription|access-date=28 August 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231002140309/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/welfare-office-made-up-quotes-from-happy-benefits-claimants-pjq38j57x32|archive-date=2 October 2023}}</ref> Later the same month, publication of statistics showed 2,380 people died in a 3-year period shortly after a work capability assessment declared them fit for work. This led to [[Jeremy Corbyn]] calling for Duncan Smith's resignation.<ref>{{cite news|author=Peter Dominiczak|date=27 August 2015|title=Thousands of benefit claimants died after being declared 'fit for work'|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11828097/Thousands-of-benefit-claimants-died-after-being-declared-fit-for-work.html|url-status=live|access-date=27 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150828093357/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11828097/Thousands-of-benefit-claimants-died-after-being-declared-fit-for-work.html|archive-date=28 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Jon Stone|date=27 August 2015|title=Iain Duncan Smith should resign over disability benefit death figures, says Jeremy Corbyn|work=The Independent|location=London|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iain-duncan-smith-should-resign-over-disability-benefit-death-figures-says-jeremy-corbyn-10475017.html|url-status=live|access-date=27 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150827151224/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iain-duncan-smith-should-resign-over-disability-benefit-death-figures-says-jeremy-corbyn-10475017.html|archive-date=27 August 2015}}</ref> At the 2015 Conservative Party conference, Duncan Smith said to the sick and disabled "With our help, you'll work your way out of poverty" while criticising the current system, which he said "makes doctors ask a simplistic question: are you too sick to work at all? If the answer is yes, they're signed off work – perhaps for ever."<ref>{{cite news|last=Stone|first=Jon|date=6 October 2015|title=Iain Duncan Smith tells disabled people to work their way out of poverty|work=The Independent|location=London|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iain-duncan-smith-tells-disabled-people-to-work-their-way-out-of-poverty-a6683361.html|url-status=live|access-date=6 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007074321/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iain-duncan-smith-tells-disabled-people-to-work-their-way-out-of-poverty-a6683361.html|archive-date=7 October 2015}}</ref>

In March 2016, Duncan Smith unexpectedly resigned from the [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|Cabinet]]. He stated that he was unable to accept the government's planned cuts to [[disability benefits]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Iain Duncan Smith quits over planned disability benefit changes|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35848687|url-status=live|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418234840/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35848687|archive-date=18 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=19 March 2016|title='A compromise too far': Iain Duncan Smith's resignation letter in full|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/18/iain-duncan-smith-resignation-letter-in-full|url-status=live|access-date=19 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319000534/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/18/iain-duncan-smith-resignation-letter-in-full|archive-date=19 March 2016}}</ref> He later launched an attack on the "government's [[austerity]] programme for balancing the books on the backs of the poor and vulnerable", describing this as divisive and "deeply unfair", and adding: "It is in danger of drifting in a direction that divides society rather than unites it."<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Madison|first1=Rowan|last2=Asthana|first2=Anushka|date=20 March 2016|title=Tories in civil war as Duncan Smith attacks austerity programme|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London, UK|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/20/iain-duncan-smith-attacks-deeply-unfair-budget-first-interview|url-status=live|access-date=20 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320143448/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/20/iain-duncan-smith-attacks-deeply-unfair-budget-first-interview|archive-date=20 March 2016}}</ref>