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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Wednesday the 2nd of July.

Coming up, the Prime Minister faces a political backlash following his sudden climb down over welfare cuts.

He said that he would take the difficult decisions, but isn't the reality that he is too

weak to get anything done?

I'll tell you what won't help people back into work, what won't help control the costs,

and that is voting to keep the broken system, and that is what they did last night.

But Kemi Badenok asked too about the future of the Chancellor,

who appeared upset during the session.

Also tonight, how a known damp problem caused the electrical substation fire

which shut down Heathrow.

This report demonstrates the catalogue of failure,

of the identification of a problem in 2018.

This is seven years on.

Well, Kemi Badenok has called the Prime Minister weak following his climb down over welfare reforms.

The Conservative leader said Sir Kier Starmes legislation, which was supposed

to save £5 billion a year from the cost of welfare by 2030, had been gutted. But at his first

question time in three weeks, he insisted the bill still made important reforms. Yesterday evening,

the government tried to stave off a rebellion by its own side with a

further last-minute offer to potential Labour rebels, ditching entirely the controversial plans

to make it harder for people to claim the disability benefit PIP. Perhaps anticipating a tough

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