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Social care for all – 8 in the morning, March 30th

8am

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* In Beveridge’s footsteps: Andy Burnham pledges free social care for all, a Labour initiative to rank with the NHS and welfare state.

* In last night’s “tense” Chancellor’s debate, George Osborne was accused of taking a “terrible risk” with the economy.

* WATCH: LabourList has edited the debate down to a handy two minute montage.

* Darling and Cable “heaped derision” on George Osborne’s national insurance cut proposals in the TV debates.

* Cathy Newman has checked over the meat of what was said in the debate in Channel 4’s FactCheck.

* Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who chaired the debate, said it was “as close as the election will be.”

* Former Blair speechwriter Phil Collins says the debate was “intelligible, civil, reflective and strangely heartening.

* Tony Blair, “deeply unimpressed” with David Cameron’s conference speech last autumn, will attack the Tories in a speech today in the north east.

* The BA strike is ending, but there’s still no sign of a breakthrough in settling the dispute.

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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