From the blog post at: [ Ссылка ] first published 7 November 2013
Today the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Margaret Hodge, said that Iain Duncan Smith's flagship policy, universal credit, was:
"an unmitigated disaster of extraordinary proportions in every aspect of the programme so far".
To add insult to injury, today's Times newspaper printed a story that alleges that IDS and members of his ministerial team approached Conservative party members on the PAC to request that they "point the finger" of blame for the cost overruns and mismanagement at the permanent secretary (the top civil servant) Robert Devereux - a charge that has been denied.
