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

Sir Keir Starmer has announced his latest U-turn: a £1.5bn change of course over his flagship welfare bill. The prime minister last month announced plans to reverse his controversial cuts to winter fuel payments,

S ir Keir Starmer came under fire for Labour's "humiliating U-turn" on welfare reforms. In a late-night climbdown, the Government offered backbench Labour rebels a series of concessions in an effort to head off the Prime Minister's first major Commons defeat since coming to power.