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Revisiting Easterhouse, home of Iain Duncan Smith's 'epiphany'

As the Work and Pension's Secretary resigns after six years, we return to Glasgow's Easterhouse, where his professed mission to abolish poverty began.

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It was the place that was said to have inspired Iain Duncan Smith's compassionate conservative epiphany, but after six years of the Tories at the helm, and after a historic referendum and an SNP landslide, where does this part of Scotland stand?

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