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On April 1, 1992, Ian Duncan Smith was first elected as a member of Parliament for the London constituencies of Chingford and Woodford Green. During his tenure in parliament from 1992 to 1997, he opposed the Maastricht Treaty, believing that its passage would trigger a series of other treaty changes over a period of time, affecting the relationship between the UK and the EU, and ultimately rendering the UK's EU membership untenable. He was one of the members of numerous special committees at that time. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Shadow Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense in the Department of Social Security. From 2001 to 2003, he served as the leader of the Conservative Party; Since 2003, he resigned from his position as the leader of the Conservative Party and established the Social Justice Center (CSJ), an organization dedicated to addressing the problems faced by the lowest income group in society. The most important in his series of reports is breaking through the cost of ending social collapse in the UK. In his report, he proposed five ways to alleviate poverty and how to achieve social justice and improve the quality of life of the impoverished population through conservative approaches. It is worth mentioning that in 2013, the Social Justice Center published an article titled \Combating Modern Slavery in the UK\. After the article was published, Theresa May subsequently formulated relevant laws. In 2010, Duncan Smith became the Minister of Employment and Pensions, and later resigned after a dispute with the Chancellor of the Exchequer over a decision to reduce disability benefits by over \u00a3 1 billion. During his tenure as Minister of Employment and Pensions, he implemented the most significant welfare reform plan in modern times, transforming the welfare and pension systems, and providing employment services and support. The most important reforms he introduced were the integration of six unemployment and disease subsidies into the universal welfare measures, the first employment plan to help unemployed individuals in the private and voluntary sectors return to work, and the simplification of the single-layer pension system of the national pension policy. Prior to the Brexit referendum held on June 23, 2016, he was a leading figure of the Brexit faction and appeared multiple times in media reports and public debates. At present, he is working together with everyone to ensure that the UK successfully completes the Brexit process and builds new bilateral relations based on maintaining friendship and cooperation. Before entering politics, he served in the Scottish Guard from 1975 to 1982. During this period, he served in military service in Northern Ireland and Rhodesia\/Zimbabwe. After retiring from the military, he first worked at GUC and later became a director of a real estate company and publisher Jane's Information Group.

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