Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed his Government will water down its proposed cuts to Britain's ballooning benefits bill. The Prime Minister, who was pushing for a £5billion cut to welfare spending by slashing Personal Independence Payments and Universal Credit,

Sir Keir Starmer has reportedly caved in to his backbench rebels and performed a humiliating climbdown ahead of next week's crunch vote on welfare reforms. Despite pledging there would be no more concessions,

Overnight, six more Labour MPs added their names to the rebel amendment that would halt the legislation in its tracks