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Senior Tory slams DWP chiefs for having 'no idea' what life's like on the breadline

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Tory welfare chiefs have “no idea” what life is like on the breadline, a Conservative peer has declared in a devastating attack on failings in Universal Credit.

Lord Forsyth, a former employment minister under John Major, told the Mirror ministers were “not particularly honest” in their defences of the five-week wait for payment.

And he said the six-in-one benefit has caused “real and substantial hardship” - with austerity cuts prompting "stress and difficulty".

The peer’s scathing comments came as the influential Lords Economic Affairs Committee, which Lord Forsyth chairs, released a report saying Universal Credit “isn’t working”.

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