British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s controversial welfare reform bill has cleared its first hurdle in the lower house of parliament.
But Starmer was forced to abandon key aspects of the new policy, before many MPs in his own party were willing to back it.
Many commentators are seeing it as a serious blow to the Prime Minister’s authority.
Al Jazeera’s Milena Veselinovic reports from London, UK.
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