OPINION - Keir Starmer's welfare vote nightmare hides a bigger problem: Britain just can't go on like this

One of the perils of being a PM is all the foreign junkets … the Nato meetings, the G7 get-togethers, the one-to-ones with Donald Trump. It’s part of the job of course, but it can present the incumbent with some awful dilemmas: which would you rather…attend a glamorous summit about international security at The Hague along with other world leaders, or try to sort out the gritty stuff about whether Personal Independence Payments should cover people who have difficulty pulling on their trousers? Tough, huh?