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• In one day, the government has broken two key promises to its new voters | Polly Toynbee

  19-11-2021 10:00
  
  People trusted Boris Johnson on social care and HS2. Will they punish him for these twin breaches of faith? Another day, another assault by this government on the very voters who gave it such a stonking majority. The change in social care subsidies in England, sneaked out under the shield of their own sleaze scandal, is a finely targeted strike on older, less affluent homeowners living in northern English seats. These are the very people Boris Johnson now likes to claim as his own. His manifesto
  
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• Vulnerable children unable to access help due to austerity, says inquiry

  19-11-2021 01:01
  
  Lords report says problems for 1m youngsters escalated because of the lack of services able to intervene earlyMore than a million vulnerable children in England are growing up emotionally damaged and with reduced life chances as a result of billions of pounds of austerity cuts to family support and youth services, according to a cross-party House of Lords inquiry.The Lords Public Services Committee said the pandemic had accelerated a pre-existing “crisis of child vulnerability” in wh
  
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