The Prime Minister is delivering a speech to back his Chancellor’s Budget as a row simmers on about whether Rachel Reeves isled the public over the state of the public finances.
Sir Keir Starmer will say an overhaul of the welfare system is needed after he was forced to abandon cuts planned earlier this year.
His summer U-turn saw changes to personal independence payment (Pip) eligibility stripped out of the Government’s welfare legislation, amid warnings from rebel MPs of the impact on disabled claimants.
The climbdown blew a hole of £4.8 billion in the Chancellor’s preparations for the Budget, removing expected savings.
Ms Reeves has been forced to defend herself against claims she misled voters by talking up the scale of the fiscal challenge in the run-up to last week’s Budget, in which she announced £26 billion worth of tax rises.
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