Resignation Of Iain
Duncan Smith:
- Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith resigned, citing pressure to make cuts to disability benefits.
- He wrote a letter of resignation to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, citing his resignation.
- He complained that the new budget did not help the disabled and it was a “compromise too far” in a budget that only benefitted the rich and not the poor in 2016.
- David Cameron, the Prime Minister, stated that he was confused because he said that Duncan-Smith had agreed to the cuts and he was asked on his stance on the things the government were doing but still wanted to resign.
- He was however uncomfortable with the government policy for a while and had joined the leave campaign in the EU referendum.
Resignation
Of Thomas Dugdale:
- Dubbed as the Crichel Down Affair, a number of people were forced to resign as the scandal made national news in the country
- The RAF bought the Crichel land to practice bombing near Dorset but when the owner of the land died during the War, Churchill stated to Parliament that the land would be returned to the owners when the RAF no longer needed it.
- Churchill did not keep his promise and return the land to the owners daughter. The daughters, started a campaign which caught the public eye.
- Churchill then sold the land to Ministry of Agriculture who vastly increased the price and then leased it out.
- Because of this, the minister involved (Thomas Dugdale) was forced to resign and was also forced to give the land back. His resignation set the tone as the first example of ministerial responsibility.