Starmer offers ‘massive concessions’ on welfare bill to Labour rebels

Exclusive: Leading rebels say they have been promised significant changes to planned cuts which could help bill avoid defeat

Keir Starmer has offered Labour MPs massive concessions" on his controversial welfare bill in a move that has won over key rebels and is likely to have saved the prime minister from a damaging Commons defeat next week.

Leading MPs told the Guardian they had been promised significant changes, which will cost the government several billion pounds over the next few years but would shore up the prime minister's precarious authority.