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The Department for Work and Pensions boss has delivered a stark warning to all 24 million benefits claimants. Pat McFadden, the DWP boss, has said he won't rule out further cuts as he paved the way for the Labour Party government to trim the benefits bill.

Speaking to a cross-party committee, work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden told MPs that he was “not ruling out anything”. “I have only been in the job for three months, and if I start ruling things out it will just close doors in the future, so I am not ruling anything out,” he added.

Mr McFadden said the purpose of the Timms Review, which has been launched by the Labour Party government for Sir Stephen Timms to analyse ways to improve the Personal Independence Payment, or PIP system, “cannot be to come up with more

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