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Government's HUGE welfare bill climbdown and where it leaves us - live Q&A and reaction

Government's HUGE welfare bill climbdown and where it leaves us - live Q&A and reaction

Update: 2025-07-01
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Tom Bradby and Robert Peston hosted a live question and answer session as rebel Labour MPs dealt Sir Keir Starmer his biggest humiliation yet in government. The prime minister's welfare reform bill passed its second reading in the Commons in the end, but it was watered down so heavily it was barely recognisable from when it was first unveiled. So what happens now to those in receipt of personal independence payments and Universal Credit? And with the government's series of U-turns this week losing them billions of pounds of planned savings, where on earth does Chancellor Rachel Reeves look now to plug the gap? 

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Government's HUGE welfare bill climbdown and where it leaves us - live Q&A and reaction

Government's HUGE welfare bill climbdown and where it leaves us - live Q&A and reaction

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