Andy Burnham today faced fresh demands to ‘end the worry’ and rule out an £18billion ‘death tax’ to pay for his social care plans.
Reform UK’s Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick called on the Prime Minister to ‘rule out this tax, end the uncertainty, end the worry today’. He added that Mr Burnham should ‘call a general election‘ if he failed to do so.
The PM has said social care must be reformed with ‘urgency’ as he makes tackling the crisis in the sector a key part of his premiership.
It has been estimated Mr Burnham’s desire to make social care free at the
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