Iain Duncan Smith’s declaration on yesterday’s Today programme that he could live on £53 a week (“If I had to, I would”) has inevitably prompted journalists to ask his ministerial colleagues whether they could match the Work and Pensions Secretary’s frugality. Below is how they’ve so far responded; I’ll update the list as more answers come in. In the meantime, the petition urging IDS to “prove his claim” has now garnered 218,030 signatures.
Iain Duncan Smith
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