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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke and Archie Mitchell

Labour MP who led welfare revolt calls for wealth tax to meet £5bn cost of U-turn

The leader of the rebel Labour MPs who forced Sir Keir Starmer to abandon his welfare reforms has called for a wealth tax to meet the £5bn cost of the U turn.

On Tuesday, the prime minister suffered the biggest blow to his leadership since coming into power a year ago after he was forced to shelve a key plank of his controversial benefit cuts in order to get them through parliament.

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