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The children's father claimed that the lion's owners stood by and watched as their pet clawed at his family on Wednesday.

Defrocked and disgraced, Swaggart clawed his way back to the pulpit, but attendance at his church shrank, his television ministry withered and the Bible college he founded stripped away his name.

“Had I clawed out a place for myself, only to pull up the ladder behind me?”

However, while the benefit for pensioners above the income threshold will be clawed back through tax, richer pensioners in Scotland will be able to keep the payment.

The ban would also be retrospective, meaning bonuses paid in the last financial year could be clawed back.