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Labour has vowed to press on with a vote next week despite more than 100 Labour MPs signing their names to a Commons bid to halt the welfare reforms in their tracks

There are some figures that are so strikingly off the scale – the cost of HS2, say, or levels of immigration – that you think there must be a nought too much or a decimal point missing. But no, the digits are correct: the number of people claiming disability benefits…

Work and pensions secretary publishes her welfare reform bill, but concessions do little to placate angry Labour MPs

Charities warned Keir Starmer’s cuts will drive disabled people into poverty

The Government will consider whether further changes are needed after MPs backed decriminalising women who terminate their pregnancy.

Ministers are likely to face a Commons stand-off with backbench Labour MPs over their plans.

The major reforms are set to include the tightening of criteria for the main disability benefit in England, personal independence payment (Pip).

Sources say party should have focused on the moral case for reforming the benefits system

Sir Keir Starmer’s Government is facing a possible rebellion among his own MPs who are unhappy about proposed changes to the system.