Welfare bill: what compromises have been made and how will claimants be affected?

Keir Starmer has a Commons majority of 165 but his welfare bill was expected to be defeated after more than 120 Labour MPs said they would vote against it before the latest compromises. Photograph: House of Commons/Reuters

It is less than a year since Keir Starmer led the Labour party to a historic landslide election victory.

And yet even with a Commons majority of 165, the prime minister looked to be heading for defeat on his government’s welfare bill which includes a major package of cuts to social security payments. That was until a last-minute compromise with his backbenchers, reached after fraught negotiations on Wednesday night and Thursday before the bill is voted on next Tuesday.