article_snippet: But Mr Duncan Smith, himself a former leader, today insisted that David Cameron will have to stand before that to allow time for David Cameron successor to be chosen.
article_snippet: Iain Duncan Smith, himself a former leader, today insisted that David Cameron will have to stand before that to allow time for his successor to be chosen .
article_snippet: Asked if David Cameron has to 'stand down at some point during the next Parliament' in order to allow a successor to be in place for the general election, Mr Duncan Smith said: 'Mr Duncan Smith does.
article_snippet: Mr Duncan Smith was Tory leader from 2001 to 2003, when Mr Duncan Smith was forced out in a vote of no confidence.
article_snippet: Mr Duncan Smith said it was 'a different world' then, as a prime minister was at that point able to select the date of the election
article_snippet: Mr Duncan Smith Mr Duncan Smith refused to be drawn on the identity of possible successors, but suggested that it would be someone who is already in the public eye. '
article_snippet: I don't think that you're going to have in any shape or form a brand-new leader that the country has never seen, because all the people that might want to stand for that will have been up in the public sphere for some time,' Mr Duncan Smith said. '
highlights_snippet: But Iain Duncan Smith says Iain Duncan Smith will have to stand down earlier .
  