Politically, it looks very hard for the government to proceed with its flagship welfare policies. Economically, it is very hard to see how the government cannot proceed. Labour whips, I'm told, have been jumping up and down for weeks trying to warn their colleagues in 10 and 11 Downing Street that the rebellion over the welfare reforms (or,

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to lead his party into the next general election and rejected suggestions he was failing to listen to the concerns of his party on Wednesday, as he faces a growing rebellion from lawmakers over welfare reform.