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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

Editorial: Ministers promise a new economic direction, backing industry and clean energy, but old habits and powerful interests still shape the outcome

THE extreme loyalty shown to Keir Starmer by his Scottish deputy is becoming more and more of a rarity within the Labour Party ...

COMMENT: The prime minister will survive the rebellion over benefits cuts, because he will cave in to his MPs’ demands on welfare – but from here on, things will only get worse for him, says John Rentoul

A NEW in-depth poll has suggested Reform could win Westminster seats in Scotland for the first time - and shows the right-wing party making inroads…