DWP secretary Pat McFadden also apppeared to double down on comments about welfare reform, revealed in the Mandelson files earlier this week and seized on by the Conservatives

McFadden is the Work and Pensions Secretary. That he thinks Labour is being far too generous on benefits and too gungho on taxes is seismic.

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DWP secretary Pat McFadden also apppeared to double down on comments about welfare reform, revealed in the Mandelson files earlier this week and seized on by the Conservatives

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