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Iain Duncan Smith rejects Archbishop's welfare claims

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has criticised the coalition's flagship welfare reforms and branded Prime Minister David Cameron's Big Society as "stale".

Stephanie Flanders spoke to Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, whose sweeping welfare reforms aimed at making work pay also came in for some criticism from Dr Williams.

Read Stephanie's blog: God, poverty and the government

Broadcast on Thursday 9 June 2011.

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