Keir Starmer will mark his first year in office in eight days’ time. With a majority of 165, he should be master of all he surveys, able to dictate the course of both his government and the country. But the prime minister’s humiliating climbdown on his flagship plan to cut the welfare budget shows his authority is now in tatters.

Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed his Government will water down its proposed cuts to Britain's ballooning benefits bill. The Prime Minister, who was pushing for a £5billion cut to welfare spending by slashing Personal Independence Payments and Universal Credit,