By Bagehot
THE Conservative work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is in the headlines for urging British businesses to hire British workers rather than immigrants. Mr Duncan Smith has been praised to the skies by the Daily Mail (front page headline: “Minister who dares to speak the truth”) and criticised by business groups who quickly responded that employers were not to blame for the poor skills and bad attitudes of too many young people emerging from the British education system.
