Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves.

Labour’s welfare reforms have been torn apart by a United Nations committee on disability rights, who fear the changes will increase poverty rates.

In a letter sent to the government, the committee warned that the cuts to Universal Credit and changes to Personal Independent Payments (PIP) could trigger “regression” amid disabled people.

PM Keir Starmer already watered down his welfare reforms twice before MPs voted on it earlier this month, just to win over enough Labour rebels for the legislation to pass.

The Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill was eventually voted through its second reading in the Commons, although 49 Labour backbenchers still voted against it.

The concessions effectively wiped out the £5bn savings........

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