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"She does not resile from anything she said then. This email was sent in the context of advice the Duchess was given to try to assuage Epstein and his threats."

"It was our duty to stabilise the economy and to fill in that £22bn black hole. I'm not going to resile from that."

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has said welfare changes are "never easy and rarely popular, perhaps especially for Labour governments" but that she would not "resile" from difficult decisions.

"Though ministers need not resile from previously stated views when directly asked about them, they should exercise discretion and should not take part in the public debate," he said.

But he added he did not "resile from my strongly held views" on the conflict.