Sir Keir Starmer has been plunged into a fresh row with Labour rebels just days after a make-or-break Budget designed to ease pressure on his leadership, as ministers abandoned part of a flagship policy on workers’ rights.
Labour was accused of a “complete betrayal” by its own backbenchers after the U-turn on plans to give staff ‘day-one’ protections against unfair dismissal, which they say breaches the party’s own election manifesto.
