Iain Duncan Smith quits over planned disability benefit changes

He complains of pressure to "salami slice" welfare, saying the latest cuts were a "compromise too far" in a Budget that benefits higher earning taxpayers.

David Cameron said he was "puzzled and disappointed" at the resignation.

Earlier, the government had indicated it would look again at some of the proposed disability benefits changes.

'Enormous regret'

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said: "There had been bad blood off and on between Chancellor George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith over some of the more controversial welfare reforms, but nobody expected this move only 48 hours since the Budget."

She added that she understood Mr Cameron had personally tried to persuade Mr Duncan Smith to stay on and called the resignation "a bombshell at a very sensitive time". Read More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35848687 ‘People are dying!’ Oldham MP blasts Iain Duncan Smith over benefit claim sanctions

Iain Duncan Smith along with his tory peirs well laughing away as usual

Iain Duncan Smaith bedroom tax suicides

While people starve and die and commmit suicide jolly old Iain has the public pic up his tabs

The Work and Pensions Secretary claimed people liked being sanctioned - and that it helped them "focus"

Iain Duncan Smith today claimed people thanked him for taking their benefits away.

He was accused of "losing the plot" after making a string of increasingly bizarre claims about his department's cruel benefit sanctions regime. The Tory Work and Pensions secretary said 75% of people who have had their benefits stopped under his department's cruel sanctions regime said it helped them "focus and get on." A spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was not immediately able to back up Mr Duncan Smith's claim. But the sister of ex-soldier David Clapson, who died starving and penniless after having his benefits stopped said: "I don't think my brother said it had helped him get on." Read More: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/iain-duncan-smith-claims-people-7533615

So whos now been appointed to the position?

The same guy in another mask thats who...