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• Labour to omit social care reform from manifesto and scale back Lords plans

  15-10-2023 07:00
  
  Dismay as key proposals are downsized in order to make election offer to voters ‘bombproof’Labour is preparing to omit plans for large-scale reform of social care from its next election manifesto, scale back its plans for House of Lords reform during a first term in office, and recalibrate the way it presents its £28bn-a-year green prosperity plan as it prepares to put a “bombproof” offer to voters before polling day.After a successful conference in Liverpool last w
  
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• Labour to omit funding of social care reform from manifesto and scale back Lords plans

  15-10-2023 07:00
  
  Dismay as key proposals are downsized in order to make election offer to voters ‘bombproof’Labour is preparing to omit details of how to fund a reformed social care system from its next election manifesto, scale back its plans for House of Lords reform during a first term in office, and recalibrate the way it presents its £28bn-a-year green prosperity plan as it prepares to put a “bombproof” offer to voters before polling day.After a successful conference in Liverpo
  
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