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Keir Starmer’s authority has been left shattered after last night’s welfare chaos, in which he suffered his largest Commons rebellion to date.

The PM’s welfare bill passed narrowly, but with the sixth largest Labour rebellion in history as 49 of his own MPs rejected the change. 

In a last-minute attempt to win the vote, the PM offered yet another concession to abandon all changes to Personal Independence Payments until late 2026, resulting in one MP branding the day “a total clusterf*** of Godzilla proportions”.

Last night Kemi Badenoch told the Express: “He may have been ready for an election. He was not ready for government. They made promises and they’ve broken them because they don’t know how to run this country. Whether it’s on welfare, grooming gangs, small boats, all of the promises that Labour made are broken, and we’ve still got four more years of this – this is just the first year.”

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