Lords defeat Boris Johnson over care cap that hits poorest with 'catastrophe'

Boris Johnson was tonight dealt a damning Lords defeat over his care cap that will hit Red Wall residents with “catastrophic costs”.

Peers voted 198-158 to remove a last minute shake-up in his plan for care home funding that will mean poorer people pay more.

The Prime Minister will now be forced either to abandon the plan or force it through the Commons for a second time - despite a Tory backlash. When the shake-up last went through the Commons in November, 19 Tory MPs rebelled.