MPs back health and social care levy by 319 votes to 248
MPs have backed the health and social care levy, which will see National Insurance contributions rise by 1.25…
Social Care
Reeves on levy: “Unfair, job taxing, manifesto-shredding, tax bombshell”
Below is the full text of the speech by Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves explaining why Labour will vote…
PMQs: Starmer accuses Johnson of “hammering working people”
Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson met today following the unveiling of the Prime Minister’s long-awaited social care ‘plan’.…
Boris Johnson kicks the can down the road with barely-there social care plan
Labour’s opposition day, with a planned vote on Universal Credit, is cancelled. Instead of debating whether the worst-off in…
National Insurance rise for social care not the right way to go, Starmer tells PM
Boris Johnson will today unveil his social care plan, or at least the plan to fund the plan.…
Why Boris Johnson faces widespread opposition to his social care ‘plan’
As parliamentary summer recess ends, MPs return to Westminster – and LabourList returns to your inbox every weekday morning. Top of the…
Sunday shows: Labour “sceptical” about National Insurance rise for social care
Trevor Phillips on Sunday Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy said the “broad principle” of TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady’s…
Labour does not rule out backing National Insurance rise for social care
Jonathan Reynolds has not ruled out the possibility of Labour supporting a rise in the rate of National…
Why a national care service must be a key part of our green new deal
Social care in this country is in crisis. Covid has exposed structural issues within the system that have…
Unpaid carers have been forgotten – but Labour councillors like me can help
The failure of Boris Johnson to act on his promise to reform adult social care is hitting the…
