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Before the general election, former prime minister Rishi Sunak was asked on TV why he “hated pensioners”. After her recent speech in parliament, the same question might be directed at Chancellor Rachel Reeves. She has launched an assault on pensioners in England and Wales akin to the classic boxing “one-two”.

Sir Andrew Dilnot, whose government-backed commission proposed a cap on social care costs, described the cancellation of planned reforms as a ‘a tragedy’

Two-thirds of people who have used social care report bad experiences, as problems of low pay and poor training grow

Politicians and the media often present policies as moral duties, when they are nothing of the sort

THE BBC has “no solution” to the impartiality problem posed by the difference between English and Scottish politics, an in-depth report into…

Two experts have spoken out about the state of social care and the effects of the rising cost of living on people’s health.

Letters: Michael Hill, John Harvey and Tim Johnson on the reforms needed to create a social care system that doesn’t fail people when they’re most vulnerable

Jeremy Hunt’s plans criticised for delay to reform, shifting burden to local authorities and ‘skewing the system’

The Chancellor yesterday deferred a much-anticipated cap on care homes, which would have seen an £86,000 lifetime cap on how much someone would pay for care - despite having said the issue had been "ducked" by governments back in 2013