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No 10 has offered significant concessions to the rebels, estimated to cost around £3bn a year, amid fears over Tuesday’s vote

The Labour Government has partially U-turned on its cuts to welfare in a bid to appease rebel MPs

Some 126 backbenchers had signed an amendment that would halt the legislation in its tracks.

Baroness Jenny Jones was speaking at the Glastonbury Festival.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Prior to putting before parliament its plans to cut disability and sickness-related benefits, the government must first complete essential groundwork that ought to have been done already – namely, consulting with those at the sharp end of the change: people with disabilities

Backbenchers feel PM’s chief of staff missed strength of feeling over cuts – and there are deeper tensions at play

THE BBC’s decision to platform Reform UK in Scotland when the right-wing party has no elected members has been branded “bizzarre”.

Editorial: The government’s reforms were too fierce. The scale of the backbench rebellion was unusually large. Starmer’s team should have seen what was coming

Editorial: Ministers promise a new economic direction, backing industry and clean energy, but old habits and powerful interests still shape the outcome