Battleground Yorkshire: The main parties need to be braver on social care

“Social care is a funny old thing really. It was set up as a separate system to the NHS because of the decisions made by Bevan and all the people around him in the 40s,” says Ms Abrahams. “I think if he was with us today, the great man that he was, and he looked at the fact we’ve got an ageing society, I think he’d acknowledge that actually it was a mistake to separate off social care and that it probably should have been part of the same system.

Boris Johnson had an ambition to fix social care, even managing to get an unpopular tax-rise through his own MPs in order to help fund reforms to the system. His plan failed, however, and it was added to the long list of policies killed by short-termism and lack of political ambition when it comes to reform. The next government however, can take hope from the fact that parliament and the electorate are able to get behind a plan when the need for it is explained properly.

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