Keir Starmer has made yet another U-turn on Labour’s flagship welfare reforms as the government desperately tries to avoid an embarrassing Commons defeat. The prime minister caved in to another key demand from rebel Labour MPs just two hours before the crunch vote.

By Andrew MacAskill, Elizabeth Piper and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer won a vote on his welfare plans on Tuesday but it came with a significant political cost as he suffered the biggest parliamentary rebellion of his premiership and backed down on key elements of the package to secure the bill's passage.