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Jessica Elgot

Iain Duncan Smith slams 'unfair' budget – as it happened

Iain Duncan Smith attacks ‘deeply unfair’ budget - video

Afternoon summary

Iain Duncan Smith has launched a blistering attack on the Government’s entire political direction, claiming the Chancellor’s welfare cap was “abitrary” and the brunt borne by working people and families.

Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, the former Conservative leader insisted his decision to quit was not “secondary attack” on the Prime Minister or about the European Union

Britain’s former Secretary for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, arrives for a television interview in London
Britain’s former Secretary for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, arrives for a television interview in London Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters

Duncan Smith said he had been mulling resignation for nine months but finally chose to go after a cabinet meeting on the morning of the Budget when he saw the £1.3 billion a year PIP curbs for disabled people had been juxtaposed with tax cuts for corporations and higher earners.

The truth is yes, we need to get the deficit down, but we need to make sure we widen the scope of where we look to get that deficit down and not just narrow it down on working age benefits.

“Because otherwise it just looks like we see this as a pot of money, that it doesn’t matter because they don’t vote for us.

He denied that his decision had anything to do with his desire to leave the EU, telling Sky News that was “the most puerile idea I have ever heard”.

The airwaves have been rife with Tory in-fighting throughout the morning, with Energy Secretary Amber Rudd saying she was infuriated at IDS’ “high moral tone”.

The conflict ranged even between ministers in the same department. Pensions’ minister Baroness Ros Altmann accused her old boss of “shocking” behaviour and trying to inflict “maximum damage” on the party leadership to get Britain out of the EU.

Ros Altmann
Ros Altmann Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters

But other ministers at the DWP hit back, expressing support for Duncan-Smith, including Priti Patel, Justin Tomlinson and Shailesh Vara lined up to hit back at Lady Altmann.

Several Tory backbenchers have also ruminated over the future of chancellor George Osborne. Heidi Allen said his future depended on “how he responds to that challenge. I’m hoping so, but we’ll see in the weeks and months ahead.”

Prominent eurosceptic Peter Lilley said Osborne was “damaged but not destroyed” but was “not necessarily therefore the best person,” to lead the country after David Cameron.

Bernard Jenkin, a key ally of IDS, said Downing Street’s reaction had been “deeply insincere” to suggest Brexit had coloured his friend’s motives.

Everything is dictated from the top for short term political advantage. This cannot go on.

The ex-shadow business secretary Chuka Ummuna says he does not believe IDS has always opposed the welfare cap.

Nick Clegg also wades in, claiming similar disability cuts would not have got through the coalition government.

Updated

John Crace’s marvellous sketch on the Andrew Marr IDS cataclysm.

Iain Duncan Smith perched on the edge of his seat, clutching a small, silk cushion with the letter C embroidered on the front in both hands. When a man has just found his conscience after years of tireless searching, he’s keen not to let it out of his sight.

IDS leant a little further towards Andrew Marr, his head cocked to one side and his eyelids fluttering helplessly.

“There were three of us in this marriage,” he said, fighting back the tears. “Me, the little people of this country and the Treasury.”

Here’s the full piece:

It’s the turn of Ros Altmann, the pensions minister, to insist that her statement last night on her turbulent relationship with Iain Duncan Smith was heartfelt and not for personal gain.

Osborne's leadership hopes 'damaged'

Peter Lilley, the Conservative MP and former social security secretary, is damning on George Osborne’s political future, calling him “not necessarily the best person” to be prime miniter.

He says Osborne’s hopes for the Tory leadership have been “damaged but not destroyed.”

“I think that’s inevitably the case,” he told the BBC’s The World This Weekend.

He’s an extremely able person and in many ways... well, I was going to say a safe pair of hands but not in this case. But generally a safe pair of hands. And so not necessarily therefore the best person.

Lilley said he could understand why the Budget was seen as unfair. “It came as great shock to most of us when the day after the Budget we found out there was this proposal for three billion pounds of disability benefits which we hadn’t heard about the day before, when we were hearing about cuts to corporation tax and capital gains tax” he said.

He called it a “mistake” to bounce people into changes to welfare so quickly.

This was bounced on him, on the public and on parliament in a way that was ill-advised.

Another error he said, in a thinly-veiled critique of Number 10 and pensions minister Ros Altmann, was to ascribe “cynical motives to your opponents.”

It’s wrong. When you impune people’s motives you’re basically saying you can’t respond to their arguments and it will be very damaging to the party.. because it will make it harder for us to reunite on June 24th on the way we’ll need to.

Andrew Percy MP
Andrew Percy MP Photograph: Daily Mail/REX/Shutterstock

Tory MP Andrew Percy, one of the key party opponents to the revolt over cuts to PIP for disabled people, has said it is time for leaders of the party to listen to the growing dissent.

“We have to remember the basic values of our party and our country, which is we protect those who are vulnerable,” he told Hull Daily Mail. “That means people at the top of the party have to listen to those of us who have concerns. People need to pay heed to those warnings.”

Percy led a group of around 20 Tory MPs who wrote to Osborne before Duncan-SMith’s resignation, calling for a rethink on the cuts.

“My political career, it is fair to say, hasn’t been enhanced but I know there were a lot of colleagues who had concerns,” Percy said. “If it hadn’t been for the strength of support I had privately from colleagues encouraging me to put my head above the parapet, it could have been a lot harder.”

Number 10's statement on IDS interview

We are sorry to see Iain Duncan Smith go, but we are a ‘One Nation’ government determined to continue helping everyone in our society have more security and opportunity, including the most disadvantaged.

That means we will deliver our manifesto commitments to make the welfare system fairer, cut taxes and ensure we have a stable economy by controlling welfare spending and living within our means.

Under this government there are over two million more people with the security of a job and a pay packet, almost half a million fewer children growing up in a home where nobody works and over a million fewer people trapped on out-of-work benefits.

But there is more to do. That’s why we will stick to our plan so we finish the job of delivering stability, security and opportunity for working people in our country.

The key quotes from Iain Duncan Smith's Sky News interview

On his effectiveness outside government

I would rather leave and mount this case outside than snipe from the sidelines and brief as some people do. I don’t want to do that. I want to get out clean and say ‘look, I have a different view and a different way to do it.’

On being freer to speak out on Europe

I am not in any way restrained on Europe. That is the point. If I was restrained on Europe this might have some logic. It does not.

I could have stayed in Cabinet as some of my colleagues have done and they are still free to talk about Europe.

On attacks on his motives

The idea this is about Europe I’m afraid, I recognised this would happen, there would be an attempt to try and besmirch my motivation and everything else.

The truth is it’s not about Europe. I haven’t spoken about Europe for 10 years.

On the barrage of cuts directed at working age people and families

We shouldn’t keep dipping our bucket into that well because that well is about people with real difficulty and I want to see us broaden it out.

A clip of that Sky News interview with Iain Duncan Smith. Is it a sly dig at Osborne’s “record”?

Ken Clarke is speaking on BBC News. Everyone needs to chill out, he says.

This is what happens when you have an EU referendum at the same time.

My advice is for everyone to calm down and try to get back to the issues. We do have serious financial crisis which we’re still emerging from.

Updated

Here’s the first takes on Twitter from the commentariat about IDS’ second interview.

IDS confirms he will not be making a Commons resignation statement.

I have written the letter. You can disagree with me, with my policies. But I am genuine in my concern for working-age people. I want us to get the balance right.

IDS said his motives are “being impuned by some people”.

“I came into politics because I care about Britain and the British people, that is how I have lived my whole political life.”

His resignation letter, despite mentioning Osborne by name, was not an attempt to thwart Osborne’s chances to reach Number 10, he says. “I am not interested at all in individuals and their prospects, I’m interested in getting this government back on the right track in terms of social reform.”

Has he done well as Chancellor, asks Islam. “I think his record speaks for itself,” Duncan-Smith replies.

Updated

IDS is clearly incensed by speculation his resignation is about Europe.

I am not in anyway restrained on Europe. If I was restrained that might have had some logic but I am not.

I haven’t spoken about Europe for ten years. I’m in government because I care about social justice. I didn’t have to come back into government and I didn’t want any other job.

He will not address Ros Altmann’s comments directly, but said he was prepared that people would attempt to discredit him.

IDS says he has been mulling his position for nine months but the Budget had been the clincher.

When I was sitting looking at the Budget, it took me 48 hours [to decide] that I was better off out and I should make these arguments about our direction from the outside.

I want them [the government] to get back on track and I won’t achieve that because of the narrowing o the base we can’t keep going after working age pensions.

I would rather leave than snipe from the sidelines and brief, as some people do. I want to get out, clean.

Updated

IDS repeats that his main frustration is how what was intended to be a consultation on disability payments became linked to the budget, framed as a saving to pay for tax cuts.

I found that really wrong, unfair and not the right characterisation which was a broader look at disability payments.

IDS: This has nothing to do with Europe

Iain Duncan Smith is back on your screens, speaking to Faisal Islam of Sky News.

The first challenge to him is on Europe. He says:

This is not some secondary attempt to attack the prime minister. This has nothing to do with Europe. I have not been restricted in any way [from speaking out on Europe].

If you do not mind me saying so... this is something deliberately putout there to try to discredit me

Updated

It’s hard to keep track of how some of the sensational volleys from different wings of the warring Tory party have unfolded over less than 48 hours, but here’s a good run downs of the attacks and counter-attacks.

MP questions if Osborne should stay as chancellor

MP Heidi Allen is the first to openly question if Osborne is up to the job as Chancellor.

She is the Conservative MP who garnered major attention for her attack on tax credit cuts in her maiden speech, has been speaking to Andrew Neil on the Sunday Politics.

She points out that, despite briefings from Downing Street on Friday night, there is no official confirmation of a u-turn on disability cuts via a change to personal independence payments.

She is in full agreement with IDS that the new disability assessment criteria for personal independent payments are not fit for purpose.

“The whole assessment process just doesn’t work for too many sick and disabled people. For me we need to look at the whole programme again,” she said.

Osborne can save his career if he u-turns on PIP, she said. Asked if he had any chance of being prime minister, she said: “It depends how he respond to that challenge, in the coming weeks and months. I hope so yes.

“Sometimes the strength of the man is how he picks himself up after a fall, if he attempts to brush it under the carpet than i would say no, absolutely not. Making mistakes is OK, provided you correct them.”

Allen said she hoped the current civil war in the party “might be the sense check we all need” with the party at risk of being obsessed with division over Europe.

“This could be slap to the face we all need,” she said.

Updated

Here’s just one of the clips from the show where IDS calls the budget measures “deeply unfair” in his first interview since resigning as work and pensions secretary on Friday.

Iain Duncan Smith attacks ‘deeply unfair’ budget - video

The key quotes from Iain Duncan Smith's explosive interview

On the government’s austerity programme

They [the government] are losing sight of the direction of travel they should be in. It is in danger of drifting in a direction that divides society rather than unites it.

On the scale and impact of the cuts to disability benefits, combined with tax breaks for higher earners

Juxtaposed as it came through in the Budget, that is deeply unfair and was perceived to be unfair. And that unfairness is damaging to the government, it’s damaging to the party and it’s actually damaging to the public.

On tensions in the cabinet and the top-down approach

There needs to be a greater, collegiate sense on how decisions are made. This is not the way to do government.

Andrew Marr (left) and former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith
Andrew Marr (left) and former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA

On Osborne’s entire deficit reduction strategy, cutting benefits for working-age people while protecting those for pensioners

The truth is yes we need to get the deficit down but we need to make sure we widen the scope of where we look to get that deficit down and not just narrow it down on working age benefits

Because otherwise it just looks like we see this as a pot of money, that it doesn’t matter because they don’t vote for us.

On talk of an attempted coup on Downing Street

This is not personal ... I have no personal ambitions. If I never go back into government again, I will not cry about that. I came into this government because I cared about welfare reform.

On the success of Cameron and Osborne

I am concerned that this government that I want to succeed is not actually able to do the kind of things that it should because it has become too focused on narrowly getting the deficit down without being able to say where that should fall other than simply on those who I think progressively can less afford to have that fall on them.

I am resigning because I want my government to think again about this and get back to that position that I believe, which is about being a One Nation [party].

On allegations that his resignation is about Brexit

This is not some secondary attempt to attack the Prime Minister or about Europe. It is nothing to do with that at all – if I wanted to do that I would have been clear. I have never, ever hidden my views about something and I’m not doing it now. I am genuinely, genuinely concerned.

Some reaction from Conservative MPs to Duncan Smith’s interview earlier - both praise and scepticism.

Jenkin: Downing Street 'deeply insincere'

Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin, a key ally of IDS and fellow Eurosceptic, has been on Sky News in the last hour speaking to Dermot Murnaghan’s show.

He’s being filmed in a leafy garden, which he says are the ground of his mother-in-law’s house.

“She does not need to receive a £200 winter fuel allowance,” Jenkin said, but he claims Duncan Smith had always been denied any suggestion that he could start reining back benefits for better-off pensioners. The cuts had to bear on working people and families, including the disabled, Jenkin said.

Frankly, for the government to say ‘oh we’re so perplexed, we don’t know why he resigned.... They are deliberately trying to fog the atmosphere.

Jenkin said it was “deeply insincere” and said the key point was how revealing the row had been about the way Downing Street operates.

They have taken the same playbook as Brown and Blair. Everything is dictated from the top for short term political advantage. This cannot go on.

We need to reset how Whitehall operates. The prime minister is supposed to be primus inter pares [first among equals] not a dictator. The Chancellor should not control individual departments. And Iain is not the only minister who has got hugely frustrated.

Updated

MP Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee, the influential Conservative backbenchers group, is up next on Pienaar’s Politics.

He is in politics for his beliefs and convictions and my inclination when he says something and gives his reasons is believe what he is saying. I think people often underestimate just how difficult it is for someone to come to this kind of decision.

Brady, an Out-er, says that Altmann is “wrong” about IDS’ motivation.

The worst thing you can do is impune somebody else’s motives for what they are doing and what they are saying. We are all involved in this because we have strong beliefs and are passionate about our country.

I would caution colleagues and senior advisers in government just to reflect on the damage that can be done.

He said briefings about IDS’ ulterior motivations are “very unwise and will make it harder to pull the party back together after the referendum.”

Updated

Priti Patel
Priti Patel Photograph: Hannah McKay/PA

Priti Patel, the employment minister and a fellow leading eurosceptic close to IDS, is now on the line on Pienaar’s Politics. She has phoned in to contradict Ros Altmann’s analysis, despite the fact they are still supposedly ministers in the same department.

She is very keen to lend her support to her former boss, though she will directly support what IDS’ said in his interview about the welfare cap, which he called “arbitrary” and unfair.

“That’s a matter for Iain,” she said, but says that IDS’ interview on Marr was done with “great dignity”.

“I don’t speculate about future leadership, we are a very strong party in government and we all work to deliver security and opportunity for the people of Britain,” she said.

Iain has spoken very passionately today with great conviction and dignity in terms of making his case.

Ros Altmann, the pensions minsiter who made that extraordinary statement attacking IDS has been speaking to John Pienaar’s show on Radio 5Live.

Altmann claims the resignation had been planned for weeks: “This was coming... this has to be about Europe not the policy.”

There is absolutely no love lost here. She claims to have been effectively silenced by IDS, unable to speak her mind, tweet or update her consumer rights’ blog.

Updated

Owen Smith, Labour’s shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, offers his view on the Iain Duncan Smith’s interview on the Andrew Marr show. He says the Conservative Party is “tearing itself apart over an unfair Budget” and that Osborne should resign.

“No-one will believe Iain Duncan Smith’s sudden change of heart,” he said.

After all this is the man who introduced the Bedroom Tax. But what his comments do reveal is growing anger within the Conservative Party about George Osborne’s management of the economy.

The Chancellor’s unfair Budget is falling apart at the seams. George Osborne now needs to urgently clarify whether these cuts to disability benefits will go ahead and, if not, how he will make up for the huge hole in his Budget.

Jeremy Corbyn is right. Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation is a symptom of a wider problem made at the Treasury.

George Osborne should take responsibility and resign. He has failed his party, failed the economy and failed our country.

Updated

Andy Burnham, the shadow home secretary, is speaking on Murnaghan now.

He says politicians must remember that “amongst the political intrigue” hundreds and thousands of disabled people are worried about the future, and calls on Stephen Crabb, the new secretary of state, to cancel the new criteria for PIP.

“The new villain of the piece is emerging,” Burnham said, referring to Osborne. “He has reduced people to fear and nervous exhaustion. He has made arbitrary cuts to benefits that even IDS couldn’t support. They play politics with the lives of vulnerable people.”

Updated

Amber Rudd: 'To launch this bombshell... is really disappointing'

Amber Rudd
Amber Rudd Photograph: Mark Thomas/REX/Shutterstock

Amber Rudd, the secretary of state for Energy and Climate Change, is speaking on Sky News’ Murnaghan about IDS’ resignation.

I don’t really understand it, I am perplexed but I have sat at cabinet with him every week, and then to launch this bombshell at the rest of us, it is difficult to understand and is really disappointing.

She said she resents his “high moral tone” on one nation Conservatism. “We are a team as a government and he has broken ranks with that team which is upsetting.”

He has now “created a bit more time on his hands” to work on getting Britain out of the EU, Rudd said. Number 10 is very keen to push this line.

Updated

Here’s the Guardian’s political editor’s first take on that dramatic interview.

Iain Duncan Smith spent five years in opposition drawing up plans to overhaul welfare; Universal Credit was the entire basis of his decision to co-found the Centre for Social Justice think-tank.

His key argument today is that his desire to roll out those reforms was the only reason that he entered Government - an ambition to drive a “social justice” agenda that would help people into work.

What he hadn’t realised was going to happen was the 2008 financial crash that would devastate the economic landscape in which he would enter the Department for Work and Pensions.

Duncan Smith said he knew that Government would require “compromise” but he wanted to do it in order to try to deliver his plans.

Doing so under the cloak of austerity meant that welfare cuts became the overriding narrative, while Universal Credit was more seen as a huge, at time inefficient reform, which had its deadline pushed further and further back.

Duncan Smith says he could take the austerity agenda, but admitted that he was constantly under fire from the Treasury.

Despite his warm words for the Prime Minister and Chancellor, his key argument he made this morning was that the Conservatives were this morning is damning: to suggest that the leadership went brutally after welfare because the working poor were not a group that had or ever would vote Tory.

Critics of Duncan Smith would ask why he then accepted the scale of cutbacks for six years before stepping away. Disability reforms, he said, were the straw that broke the camel’s back.

He said he had supported policies to help pensioners like the triple lock, but enough was enough. The warning now is that there is a risk that Government policy is drifting in a discretion that “divides society rather than unites it”.

Which, however much he tried to avoid attacking his party, is a highly critical point.It shines a light on the way that the Treasury has pitted the welfare bill against other departmental spending - because one thing is true: it is very popular to cut benefits.

Labour has struggled itself with how to respond because the polling is so stark.Duncan Smith’s parting shot is to say the time has come for politics to rise above populism - and stop hurting the most vulnerable, just because it is easy to do so.

For that he will be commended. But for campaigners who viciously opposed policies like the bedroom tax - it may feel like too little too late.As for George Osborne’s leadership hopes - Duncan Smith didn’t need to put the knife in on the Andrew Marr show - the entire resignation has done that, reducing Osborne’s chances dramatically.

David Cameron is trying to protect his closest colleague and friend by making sure that it is number 10 reacting to Duncan Smith’s decision. But the Treasury team will now also be desperately trying to find ways to shore up their boss’s position.

Some of the rapid reaction on social media on what must surely rank as one of the most explosive political interviews in recent history.

Updated

IDS has finished his interview, reiterating he would vote for David Cameron to remain PM if there was a leadership election tomorrow.

IDS insists his resignation is not personal attacks against Osborne.

Would George Osborne make a good prime minister? “I would hope he would,” he said.

He calls talk of a coup “piffle”.

I have a high regard for the prime minister. I would not stand for leader or support someone who could stand for leader now.

“It is not easy, it is painful to resign,” he said. “I am not in the business of morality, but the risk is there and I want to change that. I would rather campaign to change that.”

I care for one thing and one thing only...that the people who don’t get the choices my children get are not left behind.

Updated

IDS: 'I have absolutely no personal ambitions'

IDS said he understood the “need to eradicate the deficit because the people who suffer most people are people on lowest incomes.”

But he said the government had to “widen the scope” in the ways in which it tried to get the deficit down, not just by targeting working age benefits.

He suggested the working age benefits were targeted because “it doesn’t matter because [people on benefits] don’t vote for us. But they are people, people who I want to help get into work.”

“I have absolutely no personal ambitions. If I never go back into government I won’t cry about that.”

Updated

IDS said current policy was leading to division between generations. We can’t go on taking money out of working age benefits, he says, hinting the government should look again at the “triple lock” on pensions.

I am resigning because I want my government to think again about this. This is not some secondary attempt to attack the prime minister, or about Europe.

Updated

IDS 'isolated and semi-detached'

IDS said he was “passionate about issue of social justice” but felt “increasingly isolated and detached” from Number 10.

“I sat silently at 8 o’clock during the Budget [cabinet meeting],” he said, after insisting he had been considering his position over many weeks and months. “It gave me time to think about this. I thought long and hard and I wanted to put out a statement saying i would consult more. By Friday I really decided that this was the end.

“It is a very peculiar way to set policy, to tell everyone to go out and defend the policy and then by Friday evening say you had kicked it into the long grass.”

IDS says he was increasingly angry about the unfairness of tax cuts juxtaposed with welfare cuts, and the ideology behind budget cuts. “It wasn’t about Wednesday or Friday. It was about that agenda.”

Updated

IDS calls welfare budget cap 'arbitrary'

IDS is on the Marr sofa now. He says after Christmas the pressure began to grow because of the Budget, to get a definitive answer on the consultation over welfare changes.

He felt under “massive pressure” to “rush” the consultation, whilst being unaware of other forthcoming tax cuts for higher earners. He calls the cap on welfare set by the Treasury “arbitrary.”

Updated

On any other day this would be a huge story. David Laws has made some explosive claims about the NHS during the coalition years - claiming NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens told the government categorically that he could only find half of the £30bn demanded in efficiency savings.

The £22bn savings made were more than Stevens had thought were affordable, he said. Laws said Downing Street put pressure on Stevens over the funding crisis in the NHS.

“I’m not criticising Simon [Stevens] but I think he was leant on,” Laws said.

David Laws, the former Lib Dem minister, is the first interviewee with Andrew Marr this morning. He has a book out on his time in the coalition.

“It’s no secret that they were not allies,” Laws said of Osborne and IDS. Osborne had always viewed welfare budgets as “cash cows waiting to be squeezed,” he said, with IDS always more resistant, despite being seen as on the hard-right of the party.

Summary: IDS to appear on Marr for first post-exit interview

Here’s a recap of the scene in Westminster as Downing Street braces for IDS’ first interview since his dramatic resignation.

  • In the hours before his appearance, pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has accused her now ex-boss of “shocking” behaviour.

He seems to want to do maximum damage to the party leadership in order to further his campaign to try to get Britain to leave the EU.

As far as I could tell, he appeared to spend much of the last few months plotting over Europe and against the leadership of the party and it seemed to me he had been planning to find a reason to resign for a long time.

I have found him exceptionally difficult to work for. It has been a hugely challenging time for me as he was preventing me from speaking to the public and has often been obstructive to my efforts to resolve important pension policy issues such as on women’s pensions.

  • Cameron has appointed Stephen Crabb as the new Work and Pensions Secretary, with Alun Cairns taking his old job as Welsh Secretary.
  • Altmann’s comments have triggered civil war inside the department.
  • The disability minister, Justin Tomlinson, hit back saying:

Iain always conducted himself in a professional, dedicated and determined manner. He actively encouraged Ministers and teams to engage, challenge and develop ideas. We were to be ourselves, our judgement backed as we worked as a team both for DWP and the Government.

  • And Priti Patel, the employment minister, said:

Iain has always provided support and encouragement in all aspects of my work in DWP. All meetings with our Ministerial team have been constructive and every Minister has had the freedom to take forward policy ideas in their brief, to lead media campaigns and engage freely with parliamentary colleagues.

Updated

IDS is on Andrew Marr’s sofa and we’re expecting to hear from him later in the programme.

He won’t have the last word on the matter today, senior Tory figures are across the airwaves today. Here’s who is coming up on the Sunday programme.

The Andrew Marr Show - 9am

Iain Duncan Smith and former Lib Dem minister David Laws are on the sofa.

BBC Radio 5Live’s Pienaar’s Politics - 10am

Pensions minister Ros Altmann will appear as will shadow chancellor John McDonnell.

Sky News’ Murnaghan - 10am

Tory minister Amber Rudd and Bernard Jenkin, Conservative MP and friend to IDS. Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham and Conservative MP Liam Fox will also appear.

BBC Sunday Politics - 11am

Labour’s Owen Smith will appear, as will the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ Paul Johnson, and Tory MP Heidi Allen, who came to prominence for her maiden speech which attacked cuts to tax credits.

The welcoming committee at the BBC for Iain Duncan Smith’s appearance on Marr.

The Sunday papers are focussed on the Downing Street reaction to Iain Duncan-Smith’s resignation, and the future of the Chancellor - including the ‘four-letter tirade’ by Cameron at IDS.

Here’s the splash in today’s Observer.

Mail On Sunday: Outraged Cameron’s 4-letter tirade at ‘fraud’ IDS

The Mail on Sunday claims David Cameron swore at Duncan Smith during a heated telephone conversation when it became clear the Secretary of State was determined to quit, insinuating he had acted dishonourably.

A Number 10 source told PA Cameron did rebuke his ex-colleague, though claims he did not swear, but was angry they had not discussed the issues face to face.

Telegraph: Knives Out for Osborne

“Downing Street was battling to avert a full-blown leadership crisis last night as George Osborne suffered an unprecedented backlash from Conservative MPs,” the Telegraph leads.

The paper quotes senior sources saying George Osborne’s future as a potential Tory leader has been dealt a fatal blow, with one minister suggesting he would be moved from the Treasury to the Foreign Office after the July referendum.

The Times: IDS attack shreds ‘unfit’ Osborne’s dreams of No 10

The paper quotes senior Tory colleagues calling the Chancellor’s leadership hopes “dead in the water” and Osborne “unfit” to be prime minister.

“Ministers and Tory MPs lined up to call for David Cameron to sack his chancellor after the work and pensions secretary unleashed a bloodbath of mutual recriminations at the top of the Tory party,” the paper wrote, adding that Cameron was now certain to face a leader­ship challenge after the European referendum, with Osborne’s chances of succeeding him now “zero”.

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Inspired by black metal doc Until The Light Takes Us, the musician known as Phantom Slaughter launched an unhinged project endorsed by Megadeth’s Marty Friedman
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Metal Hammer
Kelly Osbourne’s Latest Look Draws Hollywood Attention, Friends Say In‑Person Reality Is ‘Scary’
The former ‘Fashion Police’ host is reportedly being “monitored” by her family amid concerns about her “extreme” weight loss.
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