The Latest Breaking News on UK Politics

The Labour Government has partially U-turned on its cuts to welfare in a bid to appease rebel MPs

Farage’s party could win 42% of Commons seats with only 26% of the vote. That’s not the way civilised countries do democracy, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

MP Jess Brown-Fuller says at the current rate it could take more than a decade to complete the compensation process

The U-turn on personal independence payments will protect the incomes of some 370,000 people - but new claimants could be more than £5,000 worse off

Sir Keir Starmer is understood to have agreed to water down some reforms in a move to save the Bill.

Some 126 backbenchers had signed an amendment that would halt the legislation in its tracks.

Baroness Jenny Jones was speaking at the Glastonbury Festival.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Prior to putting before parliament its plans to cut disability and sickness-related benefits, the government must first complete essential groundwork that ought to have been done already – namely, consulting with those at the sharp end of the change: people with disabilities

Backbenchers feel PM’s chief of staff missed strength of feeling over cuts – and there are deeper tensions at play

THE BBC’s decision to platform Reform UK in Scotland when the right-wing party has no elected members has been branded “bizzarre”.

Editorial: The government’s reforms were too fierce. The scale of the backbench rebellion was unusually large. Starmer’s team should have seen what was coming