Iain Duncan Smith resignation 'bad news for the government'

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who like Mr Duncan Smith wants to leave the EU, said his resignation was "bad news for the government".

The work and pensions secretary resigned from the Cabinet saying welfare reforms were indefensible "in the way they were placed within a Budget that benefits higher earning taxpayers."

In his resignation letter, he said he was "proud of the welfare reforms that the Government has delivered over the last five years" but added that "the latest changes to benefits to the disabled and the context in which they've been made are, a compromise too far".