[dynachrome]

“the advancement of social justice was my driving reason for becoming part of your ministerial team “

A good socialist, I would guess.

[Calvin Locke]

On the contrary: A major aim of welfare reform was to ensure that low earners would always be better off in employment.

He apparently wanted to crack down on "disability" payouts, and that put him at odds with pols afraid of the liberal press cherry picking the real need cases from amonst the plethora of con artists.

[Impy]

I thought this guy was one of the more conservative frontbench Conservatives.

For him to resign from the cabinet over spending cuts and sound like a libtard while doing it....surprising and totally uncool.