The vanity project that is Iain Duncan Smith’s universal credit

Iain Duncan Smith. ‘The cash spent to date establishing an imperfect system is a monument to his obstinacy,’ writes Les Bright.Along the way many vulnerable people have experienced unnecessary hardship (Costly and unwieldy: watchdog savages universal credit system, 15 June).Iain Duncan Smith, who was the brains behind this project, believed that he had found the answer to eradicating poverty, and the way to rebuild the self-esteem of people receiving some or all of their income from