Cabinet to 'ambush' Liz Truss over benefit cut that'd put 200,000 kids in poverty

Liz Truss is set to be told by warring Cabinet ministers that she must ditch her plan to snatch money from 5.6million people on Universal Credit.

The PM wants to break a promise made by Boris Johnson to increase payments in line with inflation next April - a rise of about 10%.

But ministers will warn her at a showdown meeting on Tuesday that she will be defeated by her own MPs if she attempts to push ahead.