I’ve long been an admirer of the Centre for Social Justice (‘CSJ’), the think-tank established by Iain Duncan Smith in 2004, shortly after he was deposed as leader of the Conservative party. It talks a great deal of sense on many topics, and its recommendations have been all but ignored by the Conservative party since David Cameron became party leader.
The CSJ has just published a shocking report on fatherless families in the UK, and here’s the Daily Mail report on it: