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  Iain Duncan Smith: we've given up trying to cut benefits
  
  Iain Duncan Smith has admitted that he is no longer seeking to cut Britain's
  
  benefits bill and is simply "managing" the increase in handouts.
  
  Mr Duncan Smith's admission on the rising benefits bill is likely to
  
  enflame tensions within the Cabinet
  
  The Work and Pensions Secretary said that, unlike other European nations,
  
  the "reality is that this country is not cutting welfare". He added that "all those on
  
  benefits will still see cash increases in every year of this Parliament".
  
  He was speaking ahead of the introduction of Universal Credit, which will begin to
  
  be rolled out next week and which will initially involve spending more on out-of-work benefits.
  
  Ministers have repeatedly boasted about how they have brought the welfare system
  
  "under control" by rooting out dubious claims and cutting unemployment.
  
  However, it is thought that although claimant numbers have fallen, those still in the
  
  system have received generous increases, pushing the total bill up by billions of
  
  pounds every year.

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