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UK politics live: Burnham says he wants to fight next election on plan for new taxes to pay for free social care in England
PM appears to be anticipating criticism of reforms that he will set out on Tuesday at the Labour party conference ‘I can deliver’: Burnham pledges radical change on eve of Labour conference Kuenssberg puts it to Burnham that, according to the Health Foundation, a system offering adult social care free at the point of delivery (like healthcare delivered by the NHS) would cost £18bn. Burnham says the cost is “not that high” (ie, not as high as £18bn). Not that high. But can I directly deal with this issue of the costs? Louise Casey is still doing an official review for us, so I will set out the vision, if you like, on Tuesday [in his speech to the conference]. Louise will then help us with the how. How do we make this happen? When can we make it happen? Continue reading...
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Burnham proposes NHS-style social care system for England
The prime minister told the BBC that social care in England is "as unfair as American healthcare".
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Ohio governor's race: Ramaswamy and Acton clash in rare Democratic pickup opportunity
The Ohio governor's race pits Vivek Ramaswamy against Democrat Amy Acton. While Ramaswamy downplays his Trump tie and Acton faces pandemic-era scrutiny, Democrats eye a rare win in 40 years
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Politics chat: Trump vs the media; rolling back health and education spending
We look at President Trump's fight with some of the White House press corps, as well as his attempt to claw back $810 million in Congressionally-approved funds for health and education spending.
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‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error The Home Office faces legal action over a policy to strip residency rights from EU citizens who were in the UK before Brexit on the grounds that it gave them the status “in error”. It comes as a Home Office minister revealed that the government has contacted 1,473 citizens with post-Brexit residency rights to tell them the original decision to grant them residency was made in error. Continue reading...
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Labour is nostalgic for two-party politics. That cosy, simple time is over – let it go | John Harris
Our fragmented political model will endure for the foreseeable future – and Reform will benefit from it until Burnham learns that cooperation is key As I wrote last week , whatever its current troubles, Reform UK has hardly disappeared. Meanwhile, those black-clad quasi-paramilitaries may well be another augury of a frightening immediate future. One more English settlement – the town of Barnham, in Norfolk – is seemingly poised to stage a pretend independence referendum in protest at plans to locally accommodate asylum seekers. Oh, and our new Labour prime minister has just held cordial talks with a US president who has not only brought a modern de facto fascism to his homeland, but wants to export it to Europe . But hold all those cheerful thoughts for a moment, and let us have a look at the Labour party as it gathers in Liverpool. The slogan plastered all over its conference is “ Hope