Tax rises are increasingly likely in the autumn Budget after Labour rebels forced Sir Keir Starmer into a humiliating capitulation on the government’s welfare reforms which will now “save nothing,” say leading economists.
The Prime Minister gutted his welfare bill at the last minute by removing plans to restrict eligibility for personal independence payments in order to head off the Government’s first Commons defeat on Tuesday evening.
Commons Clerks have insisted the law is renamed the Universal Credit Bill, as it now no longer includes any measures on Pip.