Find out more about the history of Nelson Mandela, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com. His Country Girl This particular His Country Girl Download PDF start with Introduction, Brief Session till theIndex/Glossary page, look at the table of content for additional information, when presented. IDS’s resignation was simply wrong – for him, his party and his country The first time I tried to phone Iain Duncan Smith, he had gone to the races. I had just become leader of the Conservative Party, in June 1. So in he came, beginning his frontbench career and, by agreeing to handle social security, opening up his long interest in the alleviation of poverty. This was a deliberate act of mine in order to give him a crack at the leadership himself, partly because of his own merits, and partly to mess up the plans of others who thought they would succeed me. Leaders can be mischievous like that. On the night in May 2. I was one of those who made the case to David Cameron to bring Iain into the Cabinet as work and pensions secretary. The next day he was appointed. If anyone has any right to feel disappointed about it, it’s me. Near the top of government, as in any other walk of life, people get fed up. The long years in office, the endless negotiations that are part of cabinet government, and the frustration of being so senior yet not fully in charge, get to them. And then, at a time when tensions are high in any case, it all boils over, even when the immediate problem is quite minor compared to the achievements of the previous years. At the keyboard is 18-year-old Elham Fanoos, playing in a practice room at Hunter College in Manhattan. He has the long delicate fingers of a natural (as it turns out, a gifted) pianist. He sits perfectly erect, his. STANDING DOWN Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan concedes, saving his legacy, and his country from chaos. The straw does break the camel’s back. Iain’s resignation was very much the wrong thing to do, for himself, his work, his party and his country. It is fairly obvious that such a period requires leading figures to minimise their disagreements on other issues if the Government is to function properly afterwards. Resigning now is damaging not just to the Prime Minister and Chancellor, but also to every Conservative candidate for a seat in an assembly, or a police commissionership, or for Mayor of London. And these are the people to whom we ex- leaders have a special responsibility, because they tramped the streets for us when we needed them. Depicting the Budget as a zero- sum reduction in welfare spending to pay for tax cuts – or juxtaposed with them, as Iain Duncan Smith put it – is simply playing into the hands of a Left- wing fallacy that would take us back to Gordon Brown’s policies if put into practice. It is worth noting, too, that the whole argument about personal independence payments for disabled people is not about reducing the amount spent on them, but about restraining their unexpectedly rapid increase, the case for which was set out in a letter only last Thursday signed by, yes, Iain Duncan Smith. And the overall amount spent on disability benefits is higher than it was under the last Labour government. I think he has done a lot of good and I hope he gets the chance to do so again. But, now, presented with the idea that he resigned over a policy he defended the day before, which was being revised before he quit, and because it was combined with policies that could not possibly have come as a surprise, I can come to only one conclusion. Feuds between George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith. Captain Khan Did Not Die for His Country by Jacob G. Hornberger August 3, 2016. Amidst the firestorm of controversy between Donald Trump and Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the couple whose son, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, was.
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