One almost missed it. Just as Iain Duncan Smith was finishing a detailed interview with James Naughtie on his welfare reforms on the Today programme, he used the infamous three-letter word. "That's a sin," he said. This is a word normally strictly reserved for Thought for the Day; few, if any, frontbench politicians in British politics are prepared to invoke such a theological category. Let alone use the term in an already highly charged debate on the kind of language being used by the coalition government to describe benefit recipients.
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