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Theresa May has admitted she still hasn't seen 'I, Daniel Blake'.

It comes after Tory deputy chairman James Cleverly was accused of lacking "any sort of humility" over online comments he made about the film.

Mr Cleverly faced a barrage of criticism on social media after saying Ken Loach's Bafta-winning drama was "not a documentary" and "a work of fiction".

The MP for Braintree later posted a lengthy rebuttal, saying that while the welfare system is "far from perfect" the film is a "political polemic" that is unfair on Job Centre workers.

The Twitter row erupted as it emerged the next phase of the Government's flagship welfare reform will be overhauled following widespread criticism of its planned roll-out.

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The BBC’s Andrew Marr mistakenly referred to the film as “I, Daniel Craig” - but quickly corrected himself, asking Mrs May if she had seen it when it was broadcast last night.

She said: “I didn’t. No.”

He went on to ask her why she was delaying the Universal Credit rollout.

Mrs May replied: “Throughout the introduction of Universal Credit, we’ve been clear that we would roll it out as a steady process, learn as we were going along.

“We’ve done that. We’ve made changes to Universal Credit as we’ve been going along. We’ll be saying more about the future in the coming weeks."

But she insisted it would be rolled out by 2020 as originally intended.