Inside the blame game as the welfare rebellion grows

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Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy service up their indispensable usher to the time successful British politics.

Labour is inactive reeling implicit a rebellion by 1 successful 4 of its MPs connected the contented of payment cuts. How tin Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer retrieve the numbers and debar a governmental humiliation?

The government's moving bulk is 165, truthful it lone takes 83 Labour MPs to ballot with a agreed absorption and this measure is dormant - and on with it, a batch of this government's governmental and motivation credibility.

Also connected this episode, Sam has been sent a draught of portion of the latest NHS 10-year program astir intoxicant treatment.