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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Andy Burnham vows to use his ‘political capital’ to fix social care system

Prime Minister Andy Burnham gestures with both hands while speaking during an interview
Andy Burnham told the BBC he would ‘go as quickly as I can on the reform of social care’. Photograph: Jeff Overs/Reuters

Andy Burnham has promised to use “whatever political capital I have” to finally fix the crumbling social care system in England, saying that without rapid action the NHS could effectively collapse.

In his first full interview since becoming prime minister last week, Burnham said he could not put a timetable on the arrival of a new system for social care but that its creation would take time.

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