Is IDS losing his cool over Universal Credit IT?
By Tony Collins
IDS was polite and calm, almost deferential, when he went before MPs of the Work and Pensions Committee in September 2012. “Can I say it is always a privilege to be here?” he said.
At at Monday’s hearing of the same committee, though, he was at times tetchy, patronising and mildly bullying. “I don’t think this committee can run the department,” he replied when asked why he hadn’t told the committee in 2012 of problems with the Universal Credit IT project.
Several times he talked over the MP who was asking him questions, with the result neither could be clearly heard.
[If he’s like that at meetings with DWP officials would anyone want to tell him something he doesn’t want to hear? Perhaps his loss of cool on Monday reflected the baffling complexity, and rising costs, of the waterfall part of Universal Credit’s IT programme.]
IDS might…
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