On a recent Today Programme David Bennett, a market trader said that after his housing benefit had been cut, he lives on £53 per week. The next interviewee was Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who was defending the changes. The interviewer then asked him if he could live on this amount. He replied: "If I had to, I would."
The petition calls on Iain Duncan Smith to live on this budget for at least one year.
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iain-duncan-smith-iain-duncan-smith-to-live-on-53-a-week

This article appeared in the May edition of Roger's newsletter 'Postcard from Parliament'