Labour’s welfare invoice was handed by 335 votes to 260 on Tuesday after the prime minister provided insurgent backbenchers a last-minute concession on private independence cost cuts, promising they might be shelved till subsequent autumn after a evaluate. The welfare reform triggered the biggest Labour rebel in Starmer’s premiership, with 42 Labour MPs voting for an modification proposed by Rachael Maskell, which might have killed the invoice
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