With IDS's resignation, the downfall of George Osborne, the recent budget and the virtual implosion of the Tories not a lot of people are talking about IDS's replacement: Stephen Crabb, a Welsh working-class conservative raised by a single mother who went from welfare dependency to independence.

Crabb has said that the planned disability cuts, which ostensibly led to IDS's resignation, will not be going ahead and this was a condition for his accepting the position. That said, he seems like he could be a government mouthpiece, having not rebelled against the government since the last election--plus, he voted for the cuts he claims will not be going ahead now that he has taken over.

He seems like a rising star in the Conservative Party, potentially looking at a leadership position in the future. Hopefully he brings a better style of leadership to the DWP than IDS did, and hopefully he can stand up to Osborne and the Treasury if need be.