Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan at the Labour conference in Liverpool last year.

Sadiq Khan has called on Keir Starmer to further water down the government’s welfare reforms ahead of a crunch Commons vote on Tuesday.

In a fresh challenge to the prime minister’s authority, the London mayor said ministers needed to “go further” to address the concerns of their critics.

Starmer performed a major climbdown last week over Labour’s plans to cut personal independence payments (PIP) and universal credit.

With more than 120 of his own MPs preparing to vote against the cuts, the PM agreed that any changes should not affect current recipients of the benefits.

But speaking to LBC, Khan said the concessions did not go far enough and that the bill implementing the reforms needed “radical transformation to be fit for purpose”.

He........

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