🏛️ Politics 4h ago · Rachel Cunliffe

How the old became invincible

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How do you fix a problem like social care? If you’re Boris Johnson circa 2019, you simply stand outside No 10 and tell the country you have prepared “a clear plan” in the hope no one will ask you what it is. (The plan never materialised.) Seven years later, the question of how a developed country funds the care required by an ageing population remains unsolved. The pressure this creates is shunted on to front-line health services, resulting in a crisis in A&E departments and ambulance provis

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