Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to press ahead with welfare cuts after more than 120 Labour MPs publicly opposed the move, threatening to deal a major blow to the UK prime minister’s reform programme.

Labour party opponents of the UK government’s £5 billion ($6.8 billion) cut to disability benefits have secured enough support to block the plan, setting up a high-stakes test of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership less than a year into office.

Keir Starmer seems determined to press on with disability benefit cuts despite a "nightmare" revolt by his own MPs