THE leader of Britain’s biggest Civil Service union announced plans today for a campaign to defeat Labour’s proposed welfare reforms.

Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Fran Heathcote’s intervention came a day after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faced a back-bench rebellion over his government’s plans to cut disability benefits.

Sir Keir, in the private meeting, insisted on the need to go ahead with the plans to tighten the eligibility criteria for the main disability benefit in England, the personal independence payment (Pip), and cut the sickness-related element of universal credit.