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• Tory MPs warn Boris Johnson not to take support for granted over social care cap

  21-11-2021 21:57
  
  Prime minister faces backbench rebellion over controversial plans to scale back the capBoris Johnson has been warned not to take the support of his MPs for granted, as he faces a backbench rebellion over controversial plans to scale back the social care cap, after a tumultuous fortnight at Westminster.The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) caused alarm on Thursday when it revealed it would calculate the £85,000 cap on lifetime care costs in a way that could leave tens of thousands
  
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• Flaws in Tories’ plans for cap on social care costs | Letters

  21-11-2021 19:35
  
  David Lipsey says the cost of care is not borne by older people but by those who stand to inherit their assets, Sally Hughes makes a case for a National Health and Disability Service, while Gillian Dalley points out that the details provided by the government are shamefully and deliberately vagueThe government’s proposed £86,000 cap on what any individual has to spend on their care is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to ensure that better-off people who live for a long
  
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• Has Boris Johnson crashed the Tory car?

  21-11-2021 08:00
  
  The rail debacle may have been the last straw for a party painfully divided between ‘red wallers’ who believed the levelling-up spin and more traditional ConservativesAfter a particularly difficult few days for Boris Johnson and his government, a senior figure involved in decision making in Whitehall was tearing his hair out on Friday afternoon.Johnson and transport secretary Grant Shapps had spent the previous day announcing almost £100bn of spending to improve rail links acro
  
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