is poised to confirm cuts to welfare today amid a furious backlash from backbenchers.

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is expected to outline plans in the Commons to get more people back to work and bring down the cost of the soaring benefits bill.

Downing Street has insisted there is a "moral and an economic case" for an overhaul and that the changes would put the welfare system "back on a more sustainable path".

There have been reports that the changes could slash some £5 billion of welfare payments.

But there has been growing fury on the Labour backbenches ahead of the anticipated changes.

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