Keir Starmer is facing MPs at Prime Minister's Questions after his plans for welfare reform were left in tatters. Follow the latest updates from the Commons below

Rachel Reeves has issued a statement insisting that the scenes of her crying at PMQs had nothing to do with last night’s political chaos, or rumours of her pending departure from the Treasury. A spokesman for Ms Reeves has just told journalists that the reason for her emotional state “is a personal matter,

The Chancellor was visibly distressed, wiping tears from her cheeks as Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tore into the government ’s climbdown over welfare the previous evening. According to Reeves’ spokesperson, the reason she was upset was a ‘personal matter, which – as you would expect – we are not going to get into’.