Welfare reform on knife edge as Labour rebels consider plans

The government says it had made changes to its welfare bill after listening to rebel Labour MPs.

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But it was hard to hear them over the screech of the U-turn made by ministers as they sought to swerve an embarrassing backbench rebellion in a vote tomorrow.

But even since the concessions were made to rebels on Personal Independence Payments and Universal Credit an assessment suggests 150,000 more people could be plunged into poverty by 2030 because of the changes.

Our political editor Gary Gibbon reports.

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