Duncan Smith’s rationale is that the combination of benefit traps and social housing has resulted in a ghetto effect; crime, violence, hopelessness hotspots in which young people grow up without knowing anybody in work. Few would quibble with the diagnosis. The suggested cure is unproven.

Our publisher tackles the Duncan Smith report, in his weekly guest column for Citywire.

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