Disability benefit assessment rules may be relaxed after backlash from more than 100 Labour MPs

Ministers are considering tweaks to soften their controversial welfare cuts before a crunch vote in parliament next month.

The government is examining a potential change that could allow up to 200,000 people to keep their disability benefits by tweaking assessment rules.

Richard Hermer accuses Conservatives of misunderstanding laws that have ‘kept us safe since 1945’

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The UK faces “disintegration” and will become “less prosperous and secure” if it takes a pick-and-mix approach to international law, the attorney general has said.

In a speech on Thursday, Richard Hermer launched a defence of international law and multilateral frameworks that he said “have kept us safe since 1945”.