8. 8. Plaid Cymru Debate: Universal Credit

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:24 pm on 25 October 2017.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 6:24, 25 October 2017

Yes, it was set up by Iain Duncan Smith. That’s a statement of fact, but he deliberately brought in a chief executive who was not a member of the party. Actually, he was a former communist—certainly, far to the left of the Conservative Party. He deliberately populated the centre with non-Conservatives, and he deliberately has Labour MPs and former MPs on his board of management.