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• UK politics live: government narrowly wins vote on social care cap with majority of 26

  22-11-2021 23:56
  
  Latest updates: 272 MPs voted for New Clause 49 amendment, and 246 MPs voted againstMinisters defy Tory rebellion to push through amendmentBoris Johnson praises Peppa Pig and loses place in rambling speechUK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund careJeremy Hunt calls social care plan ‘stingy’ but urges MPs to back itThe England social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Keir Starmer: Labour will not just ‘throw cash’ at UK problemsJohnson
  
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• Ministers defy Tory rebellion to push through social care cap amendment

  22-11-2021 23:15
  
  Change to how cap is calculated is set to disproportionately hit England’s poorer pensionersMinisters have pushed through an amendment to England’s social care plans, which is set to disproportionately hit poorer pensioners, despite a sizeable rebellion from backbenchers.The change means that council contributions to care fees would not go towards the cap, which means poorer people who get means-tested help would end up paying the same as richer people if they needed care for a signi
  
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• UK politics live: MPs voting on social care plan amid criticism it helps only well-off people

  22-11-2021 23:03
  
  Latest updates: House of Commons votes on health proposals after former Tory minister says plan only helps the wealthyBoris Johnson praises Peppa Pig and loses place in rambling speechUK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund careJeremy Hunt calls social care plan ‘stingy’ but urges MPs to back itThe England social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Keir Starmer: Labour will not just ‘throw cash’ at UK problemsJohnson is now defending the
  
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• Johnson ‘losing the confidence’ of Tory party after rambling CBI speech

  22-11-2021 22:05
  
  Senior party members concerned after chaotic fortnight, with PM said to be losing his grip over key policiesConservative MPs are increasingly worried about Boris Johnson’s competence and drive after he gave a rambling speech to business leaders and was accused of losing his grip over a series of key policies from social care to rail.Senior members of his own party said they needed Johnson to get the government back on track after a disastrous two weeks amid dismay about his performance at
  
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• Boris Johnson’s travails: the major issues plaguing No 10

  22-11-2021 21:03
  
  Analysis: the PM is facing difficulties on multiple fronts as he attempts to placate mounting backbench angerBoris Johnson is once again facing mounting anger from Conservative MPs, as the he struggles to brush off chaos on multiple fronts and avoid them spiralling into more serious questions about his leadership. Here are the major issues currently plaguing Downing Street. Continue reading...
  
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• England’s social care cap will see poorest areas lose greater share of property wealth

  22-11-2021 20:18
  
  Analysis shows those in deprived northern areas face spending 60% of eligible property value compared to 20% in the southHomeowners in the poorest areas of England face losing a three times greater share of their housing wealth to pay for social care than people in the most affluent areas, Guardian analysis reveals.Last week ministers decided not to count means-tested council funding of care towards a new £86,000 care cap, forcing people to pay more towards their care. The plan will on ave
  
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• New safety net is a big step forward in tackling the lottery of old age

  22-11-2021 20:13
  
  Analysis: the engineering of England’s social care cap has been divisive, but for most people it is a positive stepFrom October 2023 no one in England will have to pay more than £86,000 in care costs from their own pocket. Even for government critics, this is a big step forward in tackling the lottery of old age that for decades has seen a minority lose most of their hard-earned assets just because they were unlucky enough to be struck down by long-term illness that required years of
  
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• The Guardian view on social care: ministers plump for unfairness

  22-11-2021 20:06
  
  Reducing the entitlement of poorer homeowners is the wrong way to cut the cost of this long-delayed schemeIn order to reduce the cost of its new social care funding scheme for England by an estimated £900m, the government has opted to reduce the entitlement of less well-off people. Under the proposals put forward a decade ago by the economist Sir Andrew Dilnot, which ministers announced in September that they had decided to take forward, a cap on contributions will be applied. Set at
  
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• UK politics live: MPs to vote on social care plan amid criticism it helps only well-off people

  22-11-2021 20:01
  
  Latest updates: MPs debate health proposals before vote around 10pm after former Tory minister says plan only helps the wealthyBoris Johnson praises Peppa Pig and loses place in rambling speechUK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund careJeremy Hunt calls social care plan ‘stingy’ but urges MPs to back itThe England social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Keir Starmer: Labour will not just ‘throw cash’ at UK problemsJohnson is now defen
  
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• Martin Rowson on Boris Johnson’s social care plan – cartoon

  22-11-2021 20:00
  
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• UK politics live: PM’s social care plan ‘about helping very well off’, says former Tory pensions minister

  22-11-2021 17:43
  
  Latest updates: Ros Altmann says plan only helps the wealthy, MPs are due to vote on social care proposals tonightBoris Johnson praises Peppa Pig and loses place in rambling speechUK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund careJeremy Hunt calls social care plan ‘stingy’ but urges MPs to back itThe England social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Keir Starmer: Labour will not just ‘throw cash’ at UK problemsJohnson is now defending the inte
  
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• UK politics live: Keir Starmer says Labour sees business as force for good in CBI speech

  22-11-2021 16:28
  
  Latest updates: Labour leader tells business leaders that Labour no longer sees business as something ‘to be tolerated’ rather than celebratedBoris Johnson praises Peppa Pig and loses place in rambling speechUK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund careJeremy Hunt calls social care plan ‘stingy’ but urges MPs to back itThe England social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Keir Starmer: Labour will not just ‘throw cash’ at UK p
  
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• UK politics live: Keir Starmer makes speech to business leaders after Johnson loses place in earlier address

  22-11-2021 15:02
  
  Latest updates: Labour leader address CBI after Boris Johnson praises Peppa Pig in his own speechBoris Johnson praises Peppa Pig and loses place in rambling speechUK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund careJeremy Hunt calls social care plan ‘stingy’ but urges MPs to back itThe England social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Keir Starmer: Labour will not just ‘throw cash’ at UK problemsJohnson is now defending the integrated rail plan.
  
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• Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru to cooperate on almost 50 policy areas

  22-11-2021 14:30
  
  Parties say deal is not coalition but ‘bespoke agreement’ to create a stable Senedd capable of delivering ‘radical change and reform’Radical plans ranging from strict restrictions on second home ownership to setting up a publicly owned energy company and driving forward a free nationwide social care system have been announced in an agreement between the Labour-led Welsh government and the nationalists, Plaid Cymru.Details of the “cooperation agreement” were un
  
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• UK politics live: No 10 rules out changing social care plan after Johnson calls it ‘incredibly generous’

  22-11-2021 14:15
  
  Latest updates: Downing Street says proposals to stay the same despite Tory anger ahead of Commons voteUK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund careThe England social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Johnson is now defending the integrated rail plan.He says some people thought Covid would lead to a real change in working habits, with more people working from home.Continue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Hunt calls social care plan ‘stingy’ but urges Tories to back it

  22-11-2021 13:13
  
  Ex-health secretary says parts of proposals are a big disappointment but could be improved in futureLatest politics news – live updatesThe former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has urged Conservative backbenchers to back the government’s changes to social care funding, despite describing parts of the plan as “a really big disappointment” and “stingy”.Hunt, who chairs the Commons health and social care select committee, told colleagues it was better to vote throu
  
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• UK politics live: Boris Johnson claims social care plans ‘incredibly generous’ ahead of Commons vote

  22-11-2021 11:49
  
  Latest updates: Labour says government proposals disproportionately benefit wealthier pensionersUK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund careThe England social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Johnson is now defending the integrated rail plan.He says some people thought Covid would lead to a real change in working habits, with more people working from home.Continue reading...
  
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• UK politics live: Labour urges Tory MPs to reject PM’s ‘care con’ ahead of Commons vote

  22-11-2021 10:39
  
  Latest updates: party says government proposals disproportionately benefit wealthier pensionersUK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund careOn the Today programme Sir Andrew Dilnot, the economist who produced a report 10 years ago on which the plans for a cap on the costs of social care are broadly based, told the Today programme this morning that the change announced by the government last week would save the government £900m a year by the end of this decade, co
  
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• UK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund care

  22-11-2021 10:38
  
  Paul Scully sends mixed messages about impact of government plans to scale back English social care capLive: all the day’s political developmentsA government minister has been unable to guarantee that some people will not have to sell their homes to fund their own social care amid a backbench rebellion over plans to scale back a cap on costs.The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) caused alarm on Thursday when it revealed it would calculate the £86,000 cap on lifetime care co
  
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