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Reeves insists changes to welfare needed as MPs call for flexibility

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Chancellor says welfare bill is not working for the taxpayer or recipients.

Comments come amid concerns from Labour MPs about the impact of cuts to the welfare budget.

Details of the plans will be unveiled next week by Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall .

Some MPs have told the BBC that potential changes to payments for disabled people would be "unacceptable".

January figures show growth going in to reverse is politically (if not economically) significant, allowing opposition parties to push for a change of direction.

Conservatives and Lib Dems want the chancellor to ditch what they dub a jobs' tax the National Insurance increase on employers.

They argue this is holding back growth, but the chancellor won't be for turning.

In fact, her prescription for low or no growth is to go "further and faster" in implementing policies already announced.