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Labour had plenty of time to ponder social care. Now it has a chance to deliver

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Labour ran an election campaign designed to translate widespread disaffection with the Conservatives into the maximum number of votes.

It worked, but has left them hamstrung when it comes to the tough choices facing a country that is no longer a global economic powerhouse.

Louise Casey is a wise appointment by Wes Streeting a fearless operator used to knocking heads together.

But she’s been given the wrong brief. The biggest decision that urgently needs to be made on social care how to fund it is a political choice.

This will not happen in a million years . It is to misunderstand what politics is for and how consensus, where we see it, tends to be achieved.

The Conservatives might have signed up to the vague principle of an NHS after the Second World War but they fought Labour tooth and nail on what it took to create it.