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.

By Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer sharply scaled back planned welfare cuts on Friday to quell a rebellion by lawmakers in his governing Labour Party,

Keir Starmer agreed to pare back a divisive £5 billion ($6.9 billion) cut to welfare to quiet a rebellion by his own party, a decision that will likely leave both Britain’s fiscal plans and the prime minister’s own leadership in need of repair.