Chancellor insists welfare system is in need of reform

LABOUR MPs must realise the welfare system needs reform, Rachel Reeves has said, after more than 40 MPs wrote to the Prime Minister urging him to pause and reassess planned cuts to disability benefits.

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Some 42 backbenchers said the planned cuts were "impossible to support" in a letter to Sir Keir Starmer, and represented "the biggest attack on the welfare state since George Osborne ushered in the years of austerity".

But in response, the Chancellor said the MPs "know that the system needs reform".