Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes will not have UK benefits cut

Members of the public at site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes can continue to receive benefits in the UK after Downing Street agreed to protect payments.

Keir Starmer bowed to pressure from campaigners to back a bill known as Philomena’s law, which would ringfence survivors’ benefits if they accepted compensation from Dublin.