Taxpayers cannot foot ballooning welfare bill

SIR Keir Starmer’s welfare fiasco has unfolded in what feels like the last days of a dying government but the terrifying truth is the worst could be yet to come.

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It is not just victims of Rachel Reeves’s tax raids who have lost faith in the cluster of ruthless but inexperienced men and women around the Cabinet table. Ordinary MPs refused to join their masters in overhauling benefits and forced yet another humiliating U-turn.