25 June 2025, 18:01 | Updated: 26 June 2025, 10:22

By Andrew Marr

Keir Starmer and the Labour government are heading at speed towards what could be a smashing defeat on welfare cuts next week.

To understand the scale of the problem facing Starmer, and why it matters to all of us that he is tonight between a rock and a hard place, I have to introduce you to the rock and to the hard place.

First of all, Mr. Rock. This row is intended to save £5 billion from a budget that will rise to around £100 billion by the end of this Parliament, as more and more people go onto disability benefits.

The country can’t afford this. Somehow, ministers have to drive more of us back into work and off benefits. If it can’t, it not only has to find the 5........

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