Malcolm Tucker
Director of Communications
In the media:
- IDS loses legal appeal to keep universal credit problems secret
Politics.co.uk, 26/6/14 - Food bank charity ‘was threatened with closure by Iain Duncan Smith’s aide’
Independent, 13/6/14 - Iain Duncan Smith continues to hide reports showing failure of universal credit
Politics.co.uk, 21/5/14 - Iain Duncan Smith used false statistics to justify disability benefit cuts
Politics.co.uk, 16/5/14 - Doubts over disability figures
Channel 4 News, 15/5/14 - The ruling which reveals IDS' campaign of secrecy over universal credit
Politics.co.uk, 28/3/14 - MPs criticise DWP for 'spin' on official statistics and benefit claimants
Guardian, 18/3/14 - It all adds up: Work and Pensions press officers sent on statistics course
Independent, 12/7/13 - DPAC report on DWP abuse of statistics
Disabled People Against the Cuts, 22/6/13 - Iain Duncan Smith criticised for 'unsupported' claims on success of Government welfare reforms
Independent, 9/5/13 - Iain Duncan Smith rapped by watchdog for misusing benefits cap statistics
Guardian, 9/5/13 - IDS in trouble again over stats
Financial Times, 9/5/13 - Lies, Damn Lies, and Department for Work and Pensions Statistics
New Statesman, 30/4/13 - Fixing the figures
Economist, 25/4/13 - Conservative claims about benefits are not just spin, they're making it up
Guardian, 15/4/13
DWP UNSPUN