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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Thursday,

the 26th of June.

Coming up, the Prime Minister says he will keep talking to Labour rebels before next week's

vote on his controversial welfare reforms.

All colleagues want to get this right, and so do I.

Kemi Badenok goes on the attack.

This is a weak statement from a weak Prime Minister, which can be characterised in two words,

noises off.

And ahead of Armed Forces Day, a former military police officer remembers arriving in Iraq.

Travelling in a blacked out bus, unsure of what lay ahead.

The fear of the unknown of not making it home.

But first, the Prime Minister came to the Commons to brief MPs about his recent visits

to the G7 and NATO international

summits against a backdrop of political turmoil at home over his plan shake-up of the welfare

system. The government intends to change the eligibility criteria and rates of sickness and

disability benefits, with the aim of saving about £5 billion a year by

the end of the decade. That's triggered a huge rebellion by Labour MPs, with more than

120 of them threatening to try and block the changes next week. They fear the reforms will

mean unacceptable hardship for vulnerable people. Right at the start of his statement, Sir Keir Starrmer said he believed there was consensus

over the urgent need for welfare reforms and he was still consulting with worried MPs.

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