The Cabinet has backed Boris Johnson’s plans to reform health and social care funding, even though they are expected to involve a manifesto commitment-busting tax rise. The Prime Minister (pictured)
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has told the Prime Minister his party will oppose plans to increase national insurance to fund social care. In a letter to Boris Johnson, who
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Boris Johnson faces a Tory backlash over plans to hike National Insurance to help fund social care reforms as Cabinet talks over the final details of the policy continued. The
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A Cabinet minister has stressed the need to ensure social care reforms are “adequately funded” as the Government considers a manifesto-breaking national insurance hike to cover the costs. With a
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Council leaders have voiced “real concerns” about the impact of Government proposals for a National Care Service on Scotland’s local authorities – at the same time as warning changes could
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A mental health project using football to bring men together has received an extra £100,000 in funding. The Changing Room aims to improve mental wellbeing among men aged 30 to
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Nicola Sturgeon said she wants the health service in Scotland to be “stronger than ever before” as she launched a £1 billion-plus recovery plan for the NHS. The First Minister
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A leading trade union is calling for councils in England, Wales and Scotland to be properly funded after claiming they are grappling with huge budget deficits totalling more than £3
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Wales Health Minister, Eluned Morgan, has welcomed more than half a billion pounds of new funding for health and social services in Wales to deal with COVID. The Welsh Government
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Two-thirds of people in Britain support increasing National Insurance contributions to pay for social care reform, a poll has found. Ipsos Mori’s latest Political Monitor poll also revealed 49% of
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