Minister says Labour’s welfare bill rebels ‘trying to do their job well’ as No 10 considers concessions – UK politics live | Politics

Good morning. Irresistible force meets immovable object and … it turns out that the object is movable after all. Until yesterday afternoon, in public at least, ministers were insisting that they were fully committed to the welfare cuts in the universal credit (UC) and personal independence payment (Pip) bill – even though it has no chance of passing in its current form because so many Labour MPs have signed a reasoned amendment to kill it.

But last night it emerged that ministers are now looking at major concessions in a bid to get it through. Jessica Elgot, Kiran Stacey, Aletha Adu and Pippa Crerar have the details here.

This is how their story starts.