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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom & Dave Burke

Liz Truss says she'll divert billions from NHS into stricken social care

Liz Truss has fuelled fresh questions about how she'll fund her pledges after vowing to divert billions from the NHS into social care.

The Tory leadership frontrunner has vowed to reverse a £12bn-a-year National Insurance rise, which her rival Rishi Suank announced to support the NHS and care sector as they recover from the Covid crisis.

But she told a hustings event in Birmingham tonight that she would keep spending the money - while refusing to say where she would get it from.

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