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Labour is poised to verify cuts to welfare at the moment amid a livid backlash from backbenchers.

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is predicted to stipulate plans within the Commons to get extra individuals again to work and produce down the price of the hovering advantages invoice.

Downing Street has insisted there’s a “moral and an economic case” for an overhaul and that the modifications would put the welfare system “back on a more sustainable path”.

There have been studies that the modifications might slash some £5 billion of welfare funds.

But there was rising fury on the Labour backbenches forward of the anticipated modifications.

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