Kemi Badenoch has offered to rescue Sir Keir Starmer from his own Labour backbenchers after a massive rebellion threatened to bring down his welfare reforms.In a late intervention on Tuesday evening,

Labour party opponents of the UK government’s £5 billion ($6.8 billion) cut to disability benefits have secured enough support to block the plan, setting up a high-stakes test of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership less than a year into office.

Keir Starmer has insisted he will not back down on his plans to slash benefits, despite a growing Labour rebellion against the cuts. The prime minister told a cabinet meeting on Tuesday that the government was committed to making “hard,