The Deputy Prime Minister is up on Lorraine in the next few minutes to discuss new social housing in a rare prime-time slot.

Despite the last-minute concessions, a total of 49 Labour MPs rebelled and voted against the government’s welfare legislation. This is the largest revolt of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership.

Overall, the legislation cleared its first parliamentary hurdle by 335 votes to 260, a majority of 75.

The changes were announced by minister Sir Stephen Timms to MPs in the Commons, and came after a first round of concessions offered last week did not seem enough to quell the rebellion.

Keir Starmer’s most senior leiutenant Pat McFadden was asked how the government “managed to screw this up so badly” in a brutal opening question on the Today Programme.

Amol Rajan tore into the Cabinet Office minister, asking: “How can anyone take your government seriously when, despite having a majority of 165 you’ve had to totally abandon your flagship welfare reform? You can’t get it through with a massive majority?”

When Mr McFadden began replying with “there’s a long history of this in the Labour Party”, Mr Rajan cut him off to quip: “What? Of ineffectual leadership?”

Helen Miller, incoming boss of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, says the government will “save nothing” from its disability cuts.

She says it looks “increasingly likely the Government will have to turn to tax rises” as U-turns eat into Rachel Reeves’s already narrow headroom.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned that Keir Starmer’s concessions managed to turn his welfare bill from something that will save billions to one that may now cost money.

IFS Chief Paul Johnson says: “Looks like initial attempt to save >£5bn, which then was watered down to saving of less than half that will now save nothing. And could even end up *costing* a few tens of millions. Not a triumph.”

It’s now widely believed Rachel Reeves is set for huge tax hikes in her Budget later this year.

A Cabinet minister declined to rule out tax rises after Labour’s welfare concessions to backbench rebels.

Pat McFadden told BBC Breakfast he is “not going to speculate” on what could be in the budget, due in the autumn, but said that ministers “will keep to the tax promises” in their manifesto.

Asked whether economists were right that tax rises look likely, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster told the programme: “This is one moving part of the budgetary picture, it does have a financial consequence yesterday.

“I’m not going to speculate on where the budget lands, because there are so many other different moving parts in it, and it wouldn’t make sense for me to do that.”

Asked explicitly whether he could rule out tax rises, Mr McFadden said: “I’m not going to speculate on the budget.

“We will keep to the tax promises that we made in our manifesto when we fought the election last year. But it doesn’t make sense for me to speculate on something where, as I say, there are so many moving parts of which this is only one element.”

A Cabinet Minister has warned there will be “financial consequences” to the Government’s concessions to welfare rebels.

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden indicated that the fiscal fallout will be set out at the budget expected in the autumn.

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The Tories say that Starmer’s welfare bill collapsed in real time.

The Conservatives added: “They’ve gutted all cuts and will end up spending even more on welfare. Only Labour could try to cut costs… and spend more!”

They shared a snap of the Express’s front page story today.

Ministers’ concessions on the welfare bill signalled a “change in power between the Prime Minister” and disabled people, one of the leading backbench rebels has suggested.

Rachael Maskell told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that Tuesday saw “the bill disintegrating before our eyes”.

“Even in the last moments of the debate, when the minister was winding up, we heard that other sections of the bill will be removed that’s appertaining to Northern Ireland,” she said.

“And I think throughout the day, what we saw was a change in power between the Prime Minister and his Government and disabled people across our country, they having their voice at the heart of Parliament, and that’s why I put the reasoned amendment down.”

The York Central MP also said that she is “glad” that the debate was “had in public” and “now disabled people should feel empowered to have their voice at long last in an ableist parliament”.

There will be “financial consequences” to the Government’s concessions to welfare rebels, a Cabinet minister has said.

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden indicated that the fiscal fallout will be set out at the budget expected in the autumn

He told Times Radio: “This is a decision that will have financial consequences.. The process of the last couple of weeks does have financial consequences.

“They will all be taken together with all the other moving parts that there are in the economy, in the fiscal picture at the budget, and that will be set out at the time.

“But I’m not denying that when you set out on a plan that has a cost attached to it, and then you have to change that or take it forward in slower time, that is a decision with financial consequences.”

Welfare revolt will not “be the defining story of this Government”, a Cabinet minister has said.

Pat McFadden compared Tuesday night’s backbench revolt to one under Sir Tony Blair in the 1990s, and told Times Radio: “I have been around for a long time, and I have to reflect that it’s not the first time this has happened with Labour on welfare.

“When we first came into government in 1997 we had a very similar size of rebellion on a similar issue: we had 47 Labour MPs voting against a welfare reform measure, we had 100 abstentions.

“The headline was, Blair suffers in benefits revolt and that government went on not only to reform welfare more, but to reduce child poverty, to turn around the NHS and to do a lot of other good things. So I don’t deny that this has been a difficult process over welfare reform, but it’s not the first time it’s happened, and it is not going to be the defining story of this government.”

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster also defended Sir Keir Starmer, telling the same station he is the person who has “set the direction” for the Government.

Asked whether there are issues of policy or leadership, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said: “Keir Starmer is the leader who took the Labour Party for only the fourth time in its history from opposition to a majority Labour government.”

MPs have voted to pass Sir Keir Starmer’s flagship welfare Bill in its first Commons hurdle. The Prime Minister was hit by an enormous Labour rebellion, despite making major concessions to angry backbenchers over the cuts ahead of the crunch vote.

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The former Reform MP took to Twitter, formerly X, to say the Prime Minister’s authority has “entirely evaportaed”.

Sir Keir Starmer came to poer just one year ago.

Wrangling with backbench MPs over welfare reforms has been a “difficult process”, a Cabinet minister has said.

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden told Times Radio: “It’s been a difficult process there’s no doubt about that, over the last couple of weeks on this.

“But we got to a position where the second reading of the bill was passed, and where in regard to the most contentious issue of reforms to the Pip regime that will now be taken forward in slower time, with my colleague, Stephen Timms, the minister in charge heading up a review of that.”

The Prime Minister and Kemi Badenoch will clash in the Commons at midday after a major government concessions on welfare last night.