'I'll save PM from Labour rebellion - if he meets my three tests'

Kemi Badenoch has offered Conservative support, successful bid to assistance the authorities walk its arguable payment changes.

The Tory person told Sky News she would beryllium asking for 3 commitments from Sir Keir Starmer, if helium wants to usage Conservative votes to walk the reforms to disablement benefits, which person triggered an unprecedented rebellion of much than 100 Labour MPs.

Ms Badenoch said: "I'm conscionable making it precise wide to Keir Starmer that if helium volition marque commitments astatine the despatch container to conscionable our conditions which are to trim the payment budget, to get radical into enactment and not to person taxation rises, past we tin enactment his bill.

"The measure is simply a spot of a mess. It needs immoderate work. It looks similar it's been rushed for Rachel [Reeves] to hole different problems that they've got. But our payment fund is acold excessively high, and we truly request to bring it down."

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The imaginable of the measure passing connected Conservative votes would outrage Labour MPs.

An amendment they person tabled says they cannot enactment the measure due to the fact that it would thrust disabled radical into poverty, and they are acrophobic astir whether radical losing benefits would find work. More than 110 Labour MPs person present signed the amendment.

Welfare Secretary Liz Kendall has tried to reassure Labour MPs astir the changes. But the rebels are hoping the authorities volition h2o down their proposals successful bid to get Labour support.