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Ministers’ concessions on the welfare bill signalled a “change in power between the prime minister” and disabled people, one of the leading backbench rebels has suggested, reports the PA news agency.
Rachael Maskell told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that Tuesday saw “the bill disintegrating before our eyes”.
And I think throughout the day, what we saw was a change in power between the prime minister and his government and disabled people across our country, they having their voice at the heart of parliament, and that’s why I put the reasoned amendment down.