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:00:07. > :00:08.Tonight at Ten, the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith

:00:09. > :00:13.He'd been in the job for six years, presiding over far-reaching welfare

:00:14. > :00:15.reforms, but tonight he says the Treasury put too much pressure

:00:16. > :00:28.Amid the controversy surrounding cuts to disability benefits,

:00:29. > :00:29.We'll have the very latest from Downing Street.

:00:30. > :00:31.Also on the programme: Europe's most-wanted man,

:00:32. > :00:34.Salah Abdeslam, a prime suspect in the Paris terror attacks,

:00:35. > :00:39.He was arrested during raids in a suburb of the Belgian capital,

:00:40. > :00:43.He'd been on the run for four months.

:00:44. > :00:49.EU leaders and Turkey strike a deal that means from Sunday,

:00:50. > :00:55.thousands of migrants who reach Europe will be sent back.

:00:56. > :00:59.Tear gas and water canon are used as protests over corruption grow

:01:00. > :01:03.in Brazil, with demands the president stands down.

:01:04. > :01:07.And from two wheels to four legs - the Oympic cycling champion

:01:08. > :01:09.Victoria Pendleton takes on the challenge of a lifetime at

:01:10. > :01:18.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: England pull off a remarkable

:01:19. > :01:20.victory in the World Twenty20 - chasing down the second-highest

:01:21. > :01:47.Iain Duncan Smith has resigned from the Cabinet.

:01:48. > :01:53.The shock move tonight from the Work and Pensions Secretary follows

:01:54. > :01:58.In a statement the Work and Pensions Secretary said too much pressure had

:01:59. > :02:04.been put on him to reduced its ability benefits. The shock move

:02:05. > :02:08.comes over mounting controversy over ?4 millions ?4 billion worth of cuts

:02:09. > :02:14.to personal independence payments. Mr Duncan Smith said the cuts were

:02:15. > :02:17.not defensible that it a budget that benefited higher earners. Let's go

:02:18. > :02:21.straight to our political editor Laura Kuenssberg in Downing Street.

:02:22. > :02:26.He's been at work and pensions for six years. As this disillusionment

:02:27. > :02:30.been brewing for some time? I think there had been bad blood off and

:02:31. > :02:33.between George Osborne at the Treasury and Iain Duncan Smith over

:02:34. > :02:36.some of the more controversial welfare reforms that have been

:02:37. > :02:42.designed and imposed in recent years. But nobody expected this

:02:43. > :02:45.move, only 48 hours since the Budget and one of the most senior figures

:02:46. > :02:49.in government, who has been in the job for six years, has decided

:02:50. > :02:54.rather than defend this reform publicly, he has decided instead to

:02:55. > :03:00.walk out in protest over reforms in his own department. As a prize for

:03:01. > :03:03.the government and a bombshell at a very sensitive time. -- a surprise.

:03:04. > :03:10.Here is my colleague Alex Forsyth with more.

:03:11. > :03:14.For years he has been at the heart of the Conservative Party, a former

:03:15. > :03:18.leader who since the Tories returned to power in 2010 has been driving

:03:19. > :03:22.through his welfare reforms in Cabinet, but tonight, Iain Duncan

:03:23. > :03:25.Smith unexpectedly quit saying he could take no more of the

:03:26. > :03:30.government's approach to cutting welfare will stop questioning

:03:31. > :03:34.whether we are all in this together. In his resignation letter, Iain

:03:35. > :03:39.Duncan Smith wrote, I have for some time and rather reluctantly, come to

:03:40. > :03:43.believe that the latest changes to benefits to the disabled are a

:03:44. > :03:48.compromise too far. He continued, too often my team and I have been

:03:49. > :03:52.pressured in the immediate run-up to a Budget or fiscal event to deliver

:03:53. > :03:57.yet more reductions to the working age benefits bill. First elected to

:03:58. > :04:01.Parliament in 1992, Iain Duncan Smith has always prided himself on

:04:02. > :04:04.his principles. Committed Euro-sceptic from the start, he was

:04:05. > :04:08.a frequent rubble during John Major's negotiations on the

:04:09. > :04:13.Maastricht Treaty. -- rabble. But the rebel turned leader. He

:04:14. > :04:17.succeeded William Hague in 2001 and put crime, transport, schools and

:04:18. > :04:22.hospitals at the top of the Conservative agenda. But never a

:04:23. > :04:26.great Commons performer, Iain Duncan Smith eventually stepped down after

:04:27. > :04:30.pressure from within his own party. A small of Mike Parliamentary

:04:31. > :04:37.colleagues have decided consciously to undermine my leadership. Now it's

:04:38. > :04:42.his resignation piling pressure on his own party leader. Well, in a way

:04:43. > :04:48.I wasn't surprised because he has always been a man of principle and

:04:49. > :04:51.conviction, and he only took on the job at work and pensions because he

:04:52. > :04:56.passionately believed in social justice and he was doing a

:04:57. > :05:00.tremendous job in reforming it. A row following the Budget led to this

:05:01. > :05:05.resignation. The Treasury appeared to try and lay the blame Iain Duncan

:05:06. > :05:10.Smith's door for planned cuts to disability payments which have now

:05:11. > :05:15.been kicked into the grass. It was the final straw for the Work and

:05:16. > :05:19.Pensions Secretary. Iain Duncan Smith pitched himself against the

:05:20. > :05:22.government by declaring he would campaign to leave the EU, expected

:05:23. > :05:27.given his long held do that a sign of deep Ilott -- ideological

:05:28. > :05:30.difference. Now he has made those differences public. He says he's

:05:31. > :05:34.incredibly proud of the welfare reforms the government has delivered

:05:35. > :05:38.but lately for spending decisions as political rather than in the

:05:39. > :05:48.National economic interest. It's a damning verdict from a senior

:05:49. > :05:51.figure, the quiet man... Let's go back to Laura Kuenssberg, in Downing

:05:52. > :05:55.Street. Is this resignation perhaps also a reflection of the fact that

:05:56. > :05:58.the Work and Pensions Secretary hasn't managed to meet the targets

:05:59. > :06:04.for benefit cuts that have been put before him in the last few years? I

:06:05. > :06:07.think certainly there has been huge pressure on him at the Department

:06:08. > :06:12.for Work and Pensions. Sources in government say tonight look, he has

:06:13. > :06:15.resigned over a policy he was part of designing. He put this all

:06:16. > :06:19.together in conjunction with the Treasury. They are questioning his

:06:20. > :06:23.motivation somewhat. Senior MPs I have spoken to tonight say however

:06:24. > :06:26.his motivations are very simple. They say he believed that these

:06:27. > :06:31.changes to disability payments went too far. He was then angered when

:06:32. > :06:36.the Treasury tried to pressure his department to defend those changes

:06:37. > :06:39.yesterday. And then angered even more so when today, other parts of

:06:40. > :06:44.government, Number ten macro and number 11 decided to dump the policy

:06:45. > :06:47.and essentially dumping him right in it. Now, there is of course a very

:06:48. > :06:50.different version of events. Senior government officials say they are

:06:51. > :06:56.surprised that he suddenly walked away from something that he was

:06:57. > :07:00.absolutely part of. But I think the real problem for the government, the

:07:01. > :07:04.biggest fundamental issue of all, is contained in his explosive

:07:05. > :07:09.resignation letter. In the last line of that letter, he says, he believes

:07:10. > :07:13.that the balance of cuts between different parts of society and

:07:14. > :07:16.particular between young and old, he questions whether or not the

:07:17. > :07:20.government has got that right, and he casts doubt on the government's

:07:21. > :07:25.central mantra that we are all in this together. We have all heard

:07:26. > :07:28.dozens of times the Prime Minister and the Chancellor in particular,

:07:29. > :07:33.but other ministers as well, saying the cuts have to happen but we are

:07:34. > :07:37.all in this together, the country's national interest, everyone's

:07:38. > :07:40.interests come first but in his letter Iain Duncan Smith casts doubt

:07:41. > :07:44.under that absolutely central claim and I think in the days to come that

:07:45. > :07:47.will be very difficult indeed for the government to answer. Laura

:07:48. > :07:51.Kuenssberg at Downing Street. Salah Abdeslam - the fugitive wanted

:07:52. > :07:53.in connection with the Paris terror attacks - is tonight

:07:54. > :07:55.in police custody. Belgian authorities say

:07:56. > :07:58.the 26-year-old was captured after a shoot out in a suburb

:07:59. > :08:02.of Brussels late this afternoon, and that he was shot

:08:03. > :08:04.and wounded in the leg. Four other suspects

:08:05. > :08:06.were also arrested. Investigators believe Abdeslam

:08:07. > :08:09.played a key role in the logistics of the Paris attacks,

:08:10. > :08:12.renting one of the vehicles used Damian Grammaticas is in

:08:13. > :08:17.the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek for us tonight, where

:08:18. > :08:30.Abdeslam was captured. Yes, ever since those attacks in

:08:31. > :08:34.November there has been a huge operation by French and Belgian

:08:35. > :08:38.police to hunt down Salah Abdeslam. They know he left Paris in the

:08:39. > :08:42.aftermath and came back here to Brussels, and that search ended

:08:43. > :08:46.today. But a warning in our report there are some flashing images. But

:08:47. > :08:50.the prosecutor said this afternoon was that Salah Abdeslam was traced

:08:51. > :08:52.to this street here. He was unarmed, he tried to resist arrest, and he

:08:53. > :09:00.was shot right here. GUNSHOTS. They've been hunting their prime

:09:01. > :09:04.suspect for four months. On an ordinary Brussels street

:09:05. > :09:06.today, they got him, He was wounded as he tried to escape

:09:07. > :09:11.but now he's firmly in the grip Officers trained their weapons

:09:12. > :09:13.on the surrounding buildings, wary of being targeted

:09:14. > :09:18.as they bundled him away. Armoured units had moved

:09:19. > :09:21.into the area around 4pm. It has been suggested that they had

:09:22. > :09:24.a tip-off that Salah Abdeslam This is Molenbeek in Brussels,

:09:25. > :09:29.where he used to live and even

:09:30. > :09:30.as police moved cautiously incredibly the road was still open,

:09:31. > :09:41.traffic moving past them. Then there were shots and witnesses

:09:42. > :09:50.said that grenades were fired too. And even as the ambulances

:09:51. > :09:52.were heading towards the scene, police sources were already saying

:09:53. > :09:54.they had captured Salah Abdeslam. For the Belgian police,

:09:55. > :09:57.then, this seems to have been Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect

:09:58. > :10:01.from the Paris attacks, wounded in the leg and then it seems

:10:02. > :10:04.arrested at the top of the street following those police

:10:05. > :10:07.investigations that have been going on since the Paris attacks

:10:08. > :10:09.which have traced him TRANSLATION: I heard

:10:10. > :10:15.like firecrackers, apparently gunshots, but I don't know

:10:16. > :10:18.what happened exactly. Belgian's prime minister

:10:19. > :10:22.Charles Michel rushed out of the summit of European leaders,

:10:23. > :10:24.taking place across town, He and his French counterpart

:10:25. > :10:29.Francois Hollande were following TRANSLATION: There have been arrests

:10:30. > :10:37.already and there We know that the network was quite

:10:38. > :10:52.widespread so until we have arrested all those who took part

:10:53. > :10:54.in the terrorist network committed the abominable acts of war

:10:55. > :10:58.on November the 13th, Prosecutors say that Salah Abdeslam

:10:59. > :11:02.was a key part of the Paris attacks. There had been rumours that he may

:11:03. > :11:06.have fled to Syria but just this afternoon investigators

:11:07. > :11:07.said his fingerprint had been found at a flat they raided in Brussels

:11:08. > :11:10.earlier in the week. It is thought he may have escaped

:11:11. > :11:14.out of a back window as another man fired at officers to keep

:11:15. > :11:16.them pinned down. And there were two major explosions

:11:17. > :11:18.close together, as police continued their operation

:11:19. > :11:25.into the evening. And the police raid has raised

:11:26. > :11:27.tensions in Molenbeek. This evening, riot police

:11:28. > :11:30.were brought in to deal with groups unhappy at the presence of so many

:11:31. > :11:44.officers on the street. We know now that three of the people

:11:45. > :11:48.arrested today were a family who were sheltering Salah Abdeslam. He

:11:49. > :11:52.has been taken to hospital to be treated for his wounds. The French

:11:53. > :11:55.president Francois Hollande has said the investigations will continue

:11:56. > :11:59.because, he said, there are many, many more people who were involved

:12:00. > :12:04.in the attacks. The questions Salah Abdeslam will have to answer, was he

:12:05. > :12:07.meant to be one of the suicide bombers attacking Paris as well, and

:12:08. > :12:11.what about the wider networks behind what happened there? Damian

:12:12. > :12:16.Grammaticas in Molenbeek in Eltham. -- Belgium.

:12:17. > :12:18.Salah Abdeslam had been a wanted man ever since the attacks

:12:19. > :12:30.It appears he may have been in Brussels the whole time.

:12:31. > :12:32.For four months, police and intelligence services in France

:12:33. > :12:34.and across Europe have been hunting for one man.

:12:35. > :12:38.And there will be many questions to ask him - including how

:12:39. > :12:44.In the aftermath of the carnage of Paris, a manhunt began

:12:45. > :12:49.for Salah Abdeslam, the attacker who got away.

:12:50. > :12:53.Within hours of the attacks he was driven into Belgium.

:12:54. > :12:56.Police stopped him at a checkpoint but let him down because his name

:12:57. > :13:04.Days after the attacks, French police cornered

:13:05. > :13:05.the ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud in Paris.

:13:06. > :13:10.He was killed but Abdeslam remained at large.

:13:11. > :13:12.The authorities released these pictures of him at a petrol station,

:13:13. > :13:18.and carried out dozens of raids, but the trail went cold.

:13:19. > :13:21.Some thought he had fled to Syria until tonight's dramatic

:13:22. > :13:29.Had Europe's most wanted man really managed to hide for four

:13:30. > :13:36.Salah Abdeslam is a significant figure.

:13:37. > :13:39.He is alleged to have organised much of the logistics

:13:40. > :13:45.He rented rooms and hired cars and drove attackers around

:13:46. > :13:49.But while the others died, including his own brother in this

:13:50. > :13:55.Perhaps because he backed out of using a suicide vest

:13:56. > :14:02.The fact he was captured alive is also significant.

:14:03. > :14:05.The next stage will be his interrogation, and if he talks,

:14:06. > :14:08.he may be able to fill in crucial gaps in the investigation.

:14:09. > :14:12.Understanding exactly how he got in and out of Europe,

:14:13. > :14:17.the network that supplied them with weapons, the network of safe

:14:18. > :14:20.houses and where they got explosives, these details might be

:14:21. > :14:24.Many more people were behind the Paris attacks

:14:25. > :14:29.France's president said tonight that Abdeslam may know who some

:14:30. > :14:35.So today was a success for the Belgian and French

:14:36. > :14:51.But also, questions about why it took so long to find him.

:14:52. > :14:54.European leaders have agreed a deal with Turkey,

:14:55. > :14:56.aimed at stopping the flow of migrants and refugees

:14:57. > :15:03.It means that from midnight on Sunday, all those

:15:04. > :15:06.who cross into Greece will be sent back to Turkey,

:15:07. > :15:10.In return, thousands of Syrian refugees already there,

:15:11. > :15:14.Our Europe editor Katya Adler has more.

:15:15. > :15:32.The plan now is to ship the problem to Turkey.

:15:33. > :15:36.Most migrant boats leave from its beaches, heading to Europe.

:15:37. > :15:39.The Turkish Prime Minister strode into Brussels today,

:15:40. > :15:43.oozing confidence before a desperate EU.

:15:44. > :15:51.Because he knew what the EU most wanted was to be able to say this.

:15:52. > :15:54.Today, we have finally reached an agreement between

:15:55. > :16:01.The agreement aimed at stopping the flow of irregular migration,

:16:02. > :16:09.Under the deal, all migrants arriving in Greece after midnight

:16:10. > :16:12.on Saturday will be sent back to Turkey if their asylum

:16:13. > :16:18.In return, EU countries, not including Britain,

:16:19. > :16:20.will take possibly tens of thousands of Syrian refugees directly

:16:21. > :16:27.Sounds simple and straightforward enough, but in reality this

:16:28. > :16:33.The EU wants to put off any and all migrants climbing

:16:34. > :16:39.In return, Turkey wants 6 billion euros to help deal with migrants.

:16:40. > :16:42.It's demanded visa waivers for Turks for most of the EU,

:16:43. > :16:46.and restarting stalled talks on eventual EU membership.

:16:47. > :16:50.There is no Turkish future without the EU and there is no EU

:16:51. > :16:54.future without Turkey, so there is cooperation.

:16:55. > :16:58.But in this deal one of the partners is rather more equal than the other.

:16:59. > :17:02.The migration crisis has divided Europe, frightened its people

:17:03. > :17:05.and emboldened populist politicians who pose a challenge to the leaders

:17:06. > :17:11.In desperation, they've agreed to Turkey's steep demands

:17:12. > :17:16.with the usual ifs and buts typical of EU agreements, and this deal

:17:17. > :17:19.is legally, morally and practically so contentious that the wording

:17:20. > :17:23.in public has been left deliberately opaque in many areas.

:17:24. > :17:26.EU lawyers and diplomats have performed contortions,

:17:27. > :17:29.trying to get around these thorny issues.

:17:30. > :17:37.This migrant boat was intercepted by Britain's HMS Enterprise,

:17:38. > :17:41.helping stop people smuggling to Europe, this time via Libya,

:17:42. > :17:46.where tens of thousands are thought to be waiting to make the crossing.

:17:47. > :17:50.Turkey deal or not, the EU migrant crisis is far from over.

:17:51. > :17:53.Katya Adler, BBC News, Brussels.

:17:54. > :17:57.Let's take a brief look at some of the day's other news.

:17:58. > :18:01.Four policemen, one of them retired, have been arrested in connection

:18:02. > :18:03.with allegations of fraud involving the Police Federation

:18:04. > :18:09.An investigation by Surrey Police is looking into the alleged

:18:10. > :18:13.transfer of ?1 million to a charitable account.

:18:14. > :18:16.The husband of the international concert pianist Natalia Strelchenko

:18:17. > :18:19.has been convicted of her murder at Manchester Crown Court.

:18:20. > :18:21.John Martin, who's 48, had denied strangling

:18:22. > :18:24.and beating his wife to death, on their second wedding

:18:25. > :18:30.A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder,

:18:31. > :18:32.after a teenager was shot dead in Birmingham.

:18:33. > :18:36.The 18-year-old victim, named locally as Kenichi Phillips,

:18:37. > :18:45.is the fourth person in six months to be fatally shot in the city.

:18:46. > :18:47.In Brazil, a corruption scandal is threatening the administration

:18:48. > :18:49.of President Dilma Rousseff, with her opponents launching

:18:50. > :18:54.This week hundreds of thousands of protestors have taken

:18:55. > :18:56.to the streets, demanding she stands down.

:18:57. > :18:58.But her supporters say efforts to remove her amount

:18:59. > :19:05.President Rousseff is accused of not doing enough to stamp out

:19:06. > :19:07.corruption, amid an ongoing judicial investigation into the state

:19:08. > :19:12.Her close ally - the former president, Lula Da Silva -

:19:13. > :19:16.Our correspondent Nick Bryant is in Sao Paulo for us tonight.

:19:17. > :19:28.There have been angry protests in more than 200 cities and some of the

:19:29. > :19:33.biggest demonstrations that Brazil has ever seen. This is a country

:19:34. > :19:37.that is reeling from the Zika virus and now it is confronting the

:19:38. > :19:41.biggest political crisis in 30 years. And all this as the country

:19:42. > :19:43.prepares to host the summer Olympic Games.

:19:44. > :19:45.It looks from the air like some giant carnival,

:19:46. > :19:52.But these are scenes of fury rather than joy.

:19:53. > :19:56.Mammoth demonstrations from Sao Paulo, the country's

:19:57. > :20:00.largest city, to Copacabana beach in Rio, where there were more people

:20:01. > :20:07.They are protesting the corruption that has contaminated Brazilian

:20:08. > :20:10.politics, and targeting a former president, a man known simply

:20:11. > :20:13.as Lula, who for millions has come to personify the country's

:20:14. > :20:24.This protester called for all honest Brazilians to take to the streets.

:20:25. > :20:29.This man said that he twice voted for Lula but regrets it now.

:20:30. > :20:31.A politician who rose from Brazil's streets to become president,

:20:32. > :20:35.Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva became a champion of the country's

:20:36. > :20:41.Five years after leaving office he is accused of taking bribes

:20:42. > :20:53.Last week he was detained for questioning by prosecutors.

:20:54. > :20:56.Now new president and close ally, Dilma Rousseff, has made

:20:57. > :20:58.Lula her chief of staff, a post that offers him some

:20:59. > :21:01.Their opponents say it is a barely concealed attempt

:21:02. > :21:12.This was a pro-Lula rally in Sao Paulo where his followers

:21:13. > :21:15.chanted that the judge leading the corruption probe

:21:16. > :21:19.is trying to engineer a coup, that Brazil's elites are targeting

:21:20. > :21:23.TRANSLATION: This judge is corrupt and illegal and we are here today

:21:24. > :21:31.But for all the fervour, the government has lost some

:21:32. > :21:34.of its lustre, even among supporters because the country is in the midst

:21:35. > :21:41.Brazil is facing a political crisis, an economic crisis, a health crisis

:21:42. > :21:47.Moves are gathering pace to impeach President Rousseff,

:21:48. > :21:59.The country that overtook Britain to become the world's sixth largest

:22:00. > :22:01.economy is in a political firestorm that has gone right

:22:02. > :22:04.The actions of its beleaguered president have fuelled

:22:05. > :22:13.England's cricketers have secured an historic victory over

:22:14. > :22:16.South Africa at the T20 World Cup in India.

:22:17. > :22:20.England had been set an unlikely target of 230 to win,

:22:21. > :22:24.but secured victory with just two balls to spare.

:22:25. > :22:27.It was the highest successful run chase at a T20 World Cup,

:22:28. > :22:35.A year ago the Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton had

:22:36. > :22:40.But today, she exceeded all expectations at one of horse

:22:41. > :22:42.racing's greatest festivals at Cheltenham, crossing

:22:43. > :22:44.the finishing line a respectable fifth in an amateur race.

:22:45. > :22:48.Bookies were taking bets she wouldn't finish.

:22:49. > :22:50.Earlier, the Gold Cup was won by favourite Don Cossack.

:22:51. > :22:54.Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports.

:22:55. > :22:57.The first bumpy ride of Victoria Pendleton's day -

:22:58. > :23:07.That slightly nervous laugh said it all.

:23:08. > :23:11.Some bookies felt she was more likely to fall off than get round,

:23:12. > :23:16.and she set off on Pacha Du Polder with understandable caution.

:23:17. > :23:19.She was in last place as they leapt the first,

:23:20. > :23:23.but as the race wore on she grew in confidence and pace,

:23:24. > :23:25.surging through the pack to finish a very creditable fifth.

:23:26. > :23:28.The smile and the thumbs up said it all, the doubters silenced

:23:29. > :23:34.No fairy tale win then, but that was some performance

:23:35. > :23:41.After all the hype, how she's proved her critics wrong.

:23:42. > :23:46.If it had been another two furlongs I reckon I could have

:23:47. > :23:48.got in the mix, but it happened so quickly.

:23:49. > :23:51.It was almost like my first race all over again,

:23:52. > :23:59.But the biggest prize of the day was the Gold Cup.

:24:00. > :24:02.Home hopes lay with Cue Card, but three out they came crashing

:24:03. > :24:07.Both horse and jockey, thankfully unhurt.

:24:08. > :24:10.But that left the way clear for favourite Don Cossack to deliver

:24:11. > :24:12.yet another victory here for Ireland.

:24:13. > :24:16.Delight for jockey Bryan Cooper and for trainer Gordon Elliott,

:24:17. > :24:19.as Cheltenham saluted its heroes, but this was a day not just

:24:20. > :24:22.about the winning but about the taking part.

:24:23. > :24:31.Let's return to our main story tonight,

:24:32. > :24:33.the resignation of Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith,

:24:34. > :24:36.and speak again to our political editor Laura Kuenssberg in Downing

:24:37. > :24:46.The timing of the resignation, what do you make of it? Well in politics,

:24:47. > :24:52.as in so many things, timing is very often all. This isn't just a huge

:24:53. > :24:56.slap in the face for the government, especially George Osborne, 48 hours

:24:57. > :24:59.after the budget, but the Conservative powers are embroiled in

:25:00. > :25:03.very difficult internal arguments over the campaign over whether or

:25:04. > :25:07.not we should leave the European Union or not. Iain Duncan Smith was

:25:08. > :25:14.none of the most prominent faces in the campaign to exit the EU and many

:25:15. > :25:17.people in the Cabinet and Conservative Party are suggesting

:25:18. > :25:21.that his departure has got more to do with the fact that he wants to

:25:22. > :25:25.walk out of the EU than the fact that he had become unhappy about

:25:26. > :25:32.policies that his own department had been designing. But whichever of

:25:33. > :25:36.those is true, whether it is about the EU or not, this throws petrol

:25:37. > :25:41.onto the fiery argument is taking place in the Tory party over the

:25:42. > :25:44.European Union campaign and it is a gift for the Labour Party. In the

:25:45. > :25:47.last few minutes Jeremy Corbyn has accused the government of being in

:25:48. > :25:51.disarray and they've even called on George Osborne to resign. A

:25:52. > :25:54.government source said that is ridiculous but it is difficult

:25:55. > :25:58.because the man who was at the forefront of designing and fronting

:25:59. > :26:05.up many of the government's cuts has said that many of them have now gone

:26:06. > :26:07.too far. Thank you for joining us. That's it.

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