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• Ben Jennings on Boris Johnson finally unveiling reforms to social care – cartoon

  07-09-2021 21:00
  
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• Boris Johnson stakes reputation on £12bn fix for health and social care

  07-09-2021 20:53
  
  MPs likely to pass PM’s healthcare levy on Wednesday, pushing tax burden to record peacetime level MPs are set to usher in a historic £12bn healthcare levy on Wednesday, pushing the tax burden to a record peacetime level as Boris Johnson stakes his political reputation on attempting to fix the creaking health and care systems.Setting out the radical plan for a carved-out healthcare tax, Johnson willingly conceded that the 1.25 percentage point increase in national insurance contribut
  
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• How Johnson quelled Tory anger over manifesto-breaking tax rise

  07-09-2021 20:31
  
  PM expected to win snap vote on social care plan but rebels warn he has not yet won the warBoris Johnson won the battle to contain anger from his MPs and cabinet over the manifesto-breaking tax increase on Tuesday – but restive Tories warned he has not yet won the war.After an explosive few days of briefings from furious but mainly anonymous cabinet ministers and backbenchers, the tactic of keeping them in the dark on the details until the final moment appeared to pay off for the prime min
  
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• The Guardian view on social care: a big deal with holes in it | Editorial

  07-09-2021 20:01
  
  The boost to health and care spending is needed, but troubling details, and unfairness, remainIn 2019, in his first speech as prime minister, Boris Johnson promised to fix the crisis in social care “once and for all”. Two years later, a plan has arrived as part of a mishmash announcement that also tries to address the enormous problem of demand facing the NHS, and rising anger about intergenerational unfairness. The best part of Tuesday’s news is the money: around £12bn a
  
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• More money for the NHS is overdue, but there's not nearly enough to fix social care | Andy Cowper

  07-09-2021 19:45
  
  Boris Johnson promised to solve the crisis. But the government’s meagre funding won’t deliver the change that is neededAndy Cowper writes a weekly column for Health Policy InsightBoris Johnson today announced the government’s new plan for social care. Entitled Build Back Better, and trailed by an extensive media briefing war between the prime minister and chancellor over the past few weeks, this plan makes various financial commitments on the NHS and social care funding.It&rsqu
  
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• Dismayed business groups warn tax rises will harm recovery

  07-09-2021 19:35
  
  National insurance hike and surcharge on dividends ignore damage from pandemic, groups sayBusiness groups reacted with dismay to the government’s national insurance hike and surcharge on dividend income to boost health and social care spending from next April, calling it a tax on jobs and a blow to the economic recovery.The British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) said the extra financial burden from higher tax charges ignored the damage suffered by thousands of small businesses over the last 18
  
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• Boris Johnson defends breaking manifesto pledge as he sets out tax rise for NHS and social care – as it happened

  07-09-2021 19:29
  
  Prime minister says 1.25 percentage point tax rise is to help fund health service as well as care for elderly and disabled peopleBoris Johnson unveils £12bn-a-year tax rise to pay for NHS and social careWhat has Boris Johnson announced in his social care plan?‘Illogical’: frontline health and care staff react to funding planPM’s social care fix meant he had to break a promise to fulfill a pledgeBoris Johnson’s plan to ‘fix the crisis in social care’ is n
  
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• PM’s social care fix meant he had to break a promise to fulfil a pledge

  07-09-2021 19:22
  
  Analysis: Move to raise NICs to plug funding in social care signals end of small-state, low-tax ToriesSomething had to give. If he was to meet his pledge to fix the care system Boris Johnson had little choice but to break the Conservative party’s manifesto promise on tax. This was one occasion on which the prime minister was unable to have his cake and eat it.The new NHS and social care levy will raise £36bn over the next three years, paid for by an extra 1.25% in the national insura
  
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• Reactions across care industry to Boris Johnson’s proposed tax hikes to fund social care

  07-09-2021 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mark Adams, CEO of Community Integrated Care, one of the UK’s biggest and most successful social care charities, comments on the Government’s social care proposals:“Despite the rhetoric, we are no closer to fixing the generational crisis that is engulfing social care.Whilst reducing the cost of care for older people is vital, they represent only part of the community that social care serves. The government has focussed on the recognisable, understood and politically positive as
  
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• Boris Johnson’s plan to ‘fix the crisis in social care’ is no game changer

  07-09-2021 19:13
  
  Documents published by the government show the reality of the deal the prime minister is offeringToday’s politics news – live updatesIf Boris Johnson thought his 12-minute statement to parliament on Tuesday made good on his two-year-old promise to “fix the crisis in social care once and for all”, few in the care sector agreed.Yes, the prime minister was radical, in contrast with the inaction of successive governments, when he more than quadrupled the means test threshold
  
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• ‘It’s unfair’: Stoke-on-Trent voters see social care tax rise as unjust but necessary

  07-09-2021 18:22
  
  Locals in the newly Tory seat react to the national insurance hike with a mix of realism and resentment at the effect on the low paidIn the former red wall seat of Stoke-on-Trent Central, which the Conservatives won for the first time in 2019 with a majority of just 670, opinion on the government’s new plans for health and social care funding was split.In one camp were many who felt the national insurance hike was justifiable; a post-pandemic necessity to fund a struggling NHS and social c
  
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• Boris Johnson defends breaking manifesto pledge as he sets out tax rise for NHS and social care – UK politics live

  07-09-2021 17:47
  
  Prime minister says 1.25 percentage point tax rise is to help fund health service as well as care for elderly and disabled peopleBoris Johnson unveils £12bn-a-year tax rise to pay for NHS and social careWhat has Boris Johnson announced in his social care plan?‘Illogical’: frontline health and care staff react to funding planNadhim Zahawi ‘not comfortable’ with breaking manifesto promisesDowning Street says ministers backed Boris Johnson’s plans for social care
  
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• Johnson visits Stepney Green care home ahead of social care announcement

  07-09-2021 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Excelcare-family were delighted to welcome Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Health Secretary Sajid Javid, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak to their Westport Care Home this morning ahead of the PM’s planned social care reformation announcement in the house of parliament this afternoon.Westport Care Home located in Stepney Green was the chosen home for the visit after being highlighted as a London home of excellence by the PM’s office for managing the risk of Covid-19 excep
  
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• Boris Johnson gives press briefing on funding for health and social care – UK politics live

  07-09-2021 17:05
  
  Prime minister says 1.25 percentage point tax rise will be used for the NHS and to help fund social careBoris Johnson unveils £12bn-a-year tax rise to pay for NHS and social careNadhim Zahawi ‘not comfortable’ with breaking manifesto promisesDowning Street says ministers backed Boris Johnson’s plans for social care at this morning’s cabinet. At the lobby briefing the prime minister’s spokesman told journalists:The cabinet agreed to the proposals set out. There
  
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• Boris Johnson has created a ‘social care plan’ without any plan for social care | Frances Ryan

  07-09-2021 16:58
  
  The prime minister had a chance to effect real reform. Instead, he chose the Tory base over disabled people and care workersTwo years after Boris Johnson promised a plan for social care, it can hardly be said that today’s announcement was “worth the wait”. As one Tory backbencher MP put it, “If the ‘big reveal’ of a decade of thinking is this, then some people want sacking.”Unlike the NHS, social care – be it long-term support for elderly people in
  
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• ‘Illogical’: frontline health and care staff react to funding plan

  07-09-2021 16:48
  
  Boris Johnson announced that £36bn raised by new 1.25% tax rise would go ‘straight to frontline’Today’s politics news – live updatesBoris Johnson announced in parliament that £36bn raised by the new 1.25% tax rise would “go straight to the frontline” of health and social care. We asked some of them – doctors, care workers, managers and families of people in care homes – for their reaction. Continue reading...
  
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• Boris Johnson raises taxes by £12bn a year to fund NHS and social care – video

  07-09-2021 16:19
  
  The prime minister has confirmed his government will impose a manifesto-busting £12bn-a-year package of tax increases from next April to tackle NHS Covid backlogs and overhaul social care. The cabinet signed up on Tuesday morning to a controversial 1.25 percentage point increase in national insurance contributions, which will be levied on employers and employees.Tax on share dividends will also be increased by 1.25 percentage points, in a move expected to raise £600m.Much of the reve
  
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• Share your thoughts on the social care reform plans

  07-09-2021 14:48
  
  We would like to hear from care home managers and staff about the plans announced by the governmentThe government has announced the NHS will get £36bn over the next three years which will be funded by a new “health and social care levy,” which will be 1.25% paid by working adults, including those over the state pension age.From October 2023, anyone with assets between £20,000 and £100,000 will be expected to contribute to the cost of their adult social care care, bu
  
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• What has Boris Johnson announced in his social care plan?

  07-09-2021 14:01
  
  The PM has revealed the first outlines of a shake-up that is also intended to help the NHS recover from CovidPolitics live: Boris Johnson confirms rise in national insuranceBoris Johnson has given the first outlines of what Downing Street is billing as a once-in-a-generation shake-up of adult social care and how it is funded, which will also help pay for a post-Covid catch-up programme for the NHS. Continue reading...
  
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• Boris Johnson confirms rise in national insurance for health and social care – UK politics live news

  07-09-2021 13:56
  
  Prime minister says 1.25 percentage point rise will be used for the NHS and to help fund social careBoris Johnson unveils £12bn-a-year tax rise to pay for NHS and social careNadhim Zahawi ‘not comfortable’ with breaking manifesto promisesDowning Street says ministers backed Boris Johnson’s plans for social care at this morning’s cabinet. At the lobby briefing the prime minister’s spokesman told journalists:The cabinet agreed to the proposals set out. There was
  
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• Boris Johnson unveils £12bn-a-year tax rise to pay for NHS and social care

  07-09-2021 13:38
  
  PM makes statement to MPs after cabinet agreed to1.25 percentage point increase in national insurance contributionsBoris Johnson has confirmed his government will impose a manifesto-busting £12bn-a-year package of tax increases from next April to tackle NHS Covid backlogs and overhaul social care.The cabinet signed up on Tuesday morning to a controversial 1.25 percentage point increase in national insurance contributions, which will be levied on both employers and employees. Continue readi
  
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• Boris Johnson says NI rise needed to support NHS after Covid – UK politics live news

  07-09-2021 10:49
  
  Prime minister says money will be initially be used to rescue NHS as he faces backlash over manifesto-busting planNadhim Zahawi ‘not comfortable’ with breaking manifesto promisesBoris Johnson faces growing red wall rebellion over social care tax risesGood morning. Boris Johnson will today unveil his long-promised plans to reform social care, first to MPs in a statement to the Commons and then to the public directly at a press conference. It is a huge political challenge, for two obvi
  
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• Nadhim Zahawi ‘not comfortable’ with breaking manifesto promises’

  07-09-2021 09:10
  
  Minister’s comments come as PM prepares to announce rise in NI contributions to fund social careA UK government minister has said he is “not comfortable with breaking any manifesto promises” as the prime minister prepares to announce an increase in national insurance contributions to fund health and social care and limit a rise in the state pension.Nadhim Zahawi, the vaccine deployment minister, was defending plans to fund an overhaul of social care and tackle the NHS backlog,
  
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• What has gone wrong with social care in England?

  07-09-2021 08:00
  
  Boris Johnson is not the first to try to fix the problems that have made care costs unaffordable for manyWhether it is help with washing and dressing at home or long-term nursing support, most social care in England has never been automatically free at the point of use like the NHS. Continue reading...
  
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