What Iain Duncan Smith gets right about freedom

One of Kemi Badenoch’s much-touted strengths is that she cares about British culture, society and our country’s values. She is renowned for her war on woke ideology, speaking out against multiculturalist dogma and identity politics. And in her appraisal of community cohesion and society at large, she shares an outlook with a predecessor as Conservative party leader, Iain Duncan Smith.

Iain Duncan Smith was on Radio 4 this morning, speaking about the perils of our liberal laws on gambling, and the relationship they have had with the dramatic increase in gambling addiction ever since Labour relaxed laws on gambling advertising in 2005. His radio appearance comes a day after the Gambling Commission said that the number of young people with a gambling problem has doubled in a year.

His has been a long-standing campaign. In September, as co-chair of a cross-party parliamentary group examining gambling harms, Duncan Smith told a House of Commons summit of a survey by Survation showing that most people support gambling bans all together.