British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given way to political pressure and watered down planned welfare reforms to avert defeat by his own party’s lawmakers

Keir Starmer sparks 'two-tier' benefits system row with major U-turn on welfare cuts - The U-turn on personal independence payments will protect the incomes of some 370,000 existing people - but new claimants could be more than £5,

Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed his Government will water down its proposed cuts to Britain's ballooning benefits bill. The Prime Minister, who was pushing for a £5billion cut to welfare spending by slashing Personal Independence Payments and Universal Credit,