Iain Duncan Smith accused of ‘brazen conflict of interest’ over £25,000 job

Ex-Tory leader chaired government taskforce that recommended new rules benefiting firm he was employed by

Iain Duncan Smith is facing questions over his £25,000-a-year second job advising a multimillion-pound hand sanitiser company after he chaired a government taskforce that recommended new rules benefiting the firm.

The MP and former Conservative party leader chaired the Task Force on Innovation, Growth, and Regulatory Reform, which reported back in May after he and two other MPs were asked by Boris Johnson to recommend ways of cutting supposed EU red-tape.

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