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• Labour may tax wealth more heavily to fund social care, says Starmer

  09-09-2021 20:48
  
  Party under pressure to set out alternative after condemning PM’s plan to increase NI contributionsLabour is considering taxing wealth more heavily to raise funds in order to tackle the social care crisis, Keir Starmer has confirmed, as his party comes under pressure to set out its own costed plan.Labour has condemned the prime minister’s plan for a 1.25 percentage point increase in national insurance contributions (NICs) as unfair – but has so far declined to say how it would
  
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• Boris Johnson’s care victory shows he can get away with sham policies – for now | Polly Toynbee

  09-09-2021 18:48
  
  For all the PM’s talk of big spending, more austerity lies ahead. This is no real end to small-state, low-tax ConservatismHe does it again, he pulls it off. The figure David Cameron once called the “greased piglet” has slipped from the grasp of his angry party and the Tory press, all incensed by this new levy. Boris Johnson trounced them, a mere five rebels. Despite featuring only 21st in popularity in ConservativeHome’s poll of party members, he defies them all.As long a
  
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• No 10 denies French claim Patel engaging in ‘financial blackmail’ over migrant boats – as it happened

  09-09-2021 18:09
  
  French interior minister Gérald Darmanin says proposal is contrary to the law of the sea. This live blog is now closed. Follow our coronavirus live blog for Covid updatesFrance accuses Patel of ‘financial blackmail’ over migrant boats planPlans to send migrant boats back to France ‘dead in water’, union saysUnvaccinated health and care workers in England could be redeployedGovernment consults on compulsory Covid jabs for NHS staff DUP may walk out of Stormont power
  
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• It’s time for those who benefited from a housing boom to pay up | Letters

  09-09-2021 17:51
  
  Glyn Davies calls for a wealth tax to fund social care, while David Hoare advocates an overhaul of the inheritance tax systemI have some sympathy with my fellow pensioners saying that they have already paid their whack. But there are two major caveats to that (Letters, 6 September).First, contributions to the state pension in the 1960s and 70s were based on people living to their late 60s or 70s, not over 80, and didn’t cover social care – so we have not really paid what we are now d
  
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• Treasury to decide how much of social care levy goes to NHS after 2025

  09-09-2021 15:50
  
  In first three years, less than one pound in six will go to social care sector, then chancellor will allocateThe chancellor will decide what proportion of the £12bn annual proceeds from the health and social care levy will go to the NHS after 2025, legislation published by the government confirms.MPs approved the government’s plan for a 1.25-percentage-point rise in national insurance contributions in a House of Commons vote on Wednesday, but full details of how it will operate were
  
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• Sunak to decide how much of social care levy goes to NHS after 2025

  09-09-2021 15:50
  
  First three years will give £5.4bn out of £12bn annual proceeds to NHS, then chancellor will decide on allocationThe chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will decide what proportion of the £12bn annual proceeds from the health and social care levy will go to the NHS after 2025, legislation published by the government confirms.MPs approved the government’s plan for a 1.25-percentage-point rise in national insurance contributions in a House of Commons vote on Wednesday, but full detail
  
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• There is nothing in Boris Johnson’s social care plans to rescue providers like us | Mike Padgham

  09-09-2021 14:00
  
  Our sector will receive just £2.9bn over three years. That will do nothing to mitigate decades of underfundingMike Padgham is the managing director of Saint Cecilia’s Care GroupWatching the government’s announcement on Tuesday of a new health and social care levy in England, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of deja vu: it was the type of damp squib moment that those of us who work in the care sector have become used to over the past 30 years.The rise in national insurance
  
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• Archbishop of Canterbury criticises social care tax rise

  09-09-2021 11:12
  
  Justin Welby says favouring wealthy pensioners over young and poor not a ‘people-centred policy’Boris Johnson’s plan to increase national insurance contributions to raise £12bn for the NHS and social care could pose a “serious problem” for low-income workers, the archbishop of Canterbury has said.Justin Welby said privileging wealthy pensioners over the poorest young was “not a people-centred policy”, as he stressed the need for “intergenerat
  
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• Unvaccinated health and care workers in England could be redeployed

  09-09-2021 10:03
  
  Remarks by UK care minister come amid consultation on mandatory vaccines for frontline health staffCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHealth and care sector workers in England who decline to be fully vaccinated could be moved to back-office roles, a UK government minister has suggested, as a consultation on plans to mandate Covid-19 and flu vaccinations was launched.The six-week consultation process will take views on whether vaccine requirements should apply for h
  
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• People refusing Covid jabs should not work in social care, minister suggests

  09-09-2021 09:16
  
  Remarks by Helen Whately come amid consultation on mandatory vaccines for frontline health staffCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA government minister has suggested that people who refuse to get vaccinated against coronavirus should not work in social care.Speaking on Sky News, the minister for care, Helen Whately, said care homes had been hit particularly hard by Covid, and added: “The reality is that one of the best ways we can protect people living in ca
  
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• Even low levels of air pollution can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, study finds

  09-09-2021 00:06
  Prolonged exposure to air pollution can be linked to an increased risk of stroke and coronary heart disease, even when levels are below the limits specified by the EU and WHO, according to a large European study.
  
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