BURSTLegislation passes its second reading by 75 votes well below the government’s working majority of 165
Labour’s hugely controversial welfare bill has passed its first Commons hurdle, but only after ministers offered mutinous MP another major set of concessions.
The universal credit and personal independence payment bill, to which the government had already made a series of changes last week to try to mollify backbench critics, passed it second reading by 75 votes – 335 to 260.
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