The Conservatives and Labour need to “grow up” and end an irresponsible refusal to talk about solving England’s social care crisis before the next election, the architect of seminal care reforms has warned.
In a despairing rebuke to both major parties, Sir Andrew Dilnot, whose government-backed commission proposed a cap on social care costs more than a decade ago, said that there was “no serious addressing” of the state of the care system by Labour or the Conservatives heading into an election campaign.
