Headlines in the Tory press would have us believe that Iain Duncan Smith has ?lived on the breadline twice?. But suggestions that he suffered like others on benefits are undermined by an examination of his biography ? which reveals one of these periods of unemployment was AFTER he married his wealthy, aristocratic wife.
After spending seven years with GEC Marconi (1981-88), IDS joined a property company, Bellwinch Property Ltd, but was made redundant after six months.?He talks about having to ?start all over again from scratch?:
?Later on in life when I worked my way up I was made redundant, I again had to start all over again from scratch and this time I had kids. I didn?t have any financial backing and I had to pick up the pieces, find another job and get back to work.?
Perhaps the 1989 ?on the breadline? claim would hold water if IDS hadn?t, errr, married into the aristocracy seven years earlier. His father-in-law is?5th Baron Cottesloe, in whose ?2m country house Duncan Smith now lives.
Six months after leaving Bellwinch he was working for one of the world?s leading publishers of military information as marketing and development director. Three years later he was a member of parliament.
No one would deny the stress of being made redundant with a family to support ? but IDS was never ?living on the breadline? in 1989.
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