Stuart
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This is the issue governments keep putting off. That ends now.

Today is a big day: the first cross party meeting to try and find a solution to social care crisis The only problem? Ed Davey is away with his disabled son so will be attending on Zoom (fair enough) Kemi Badenoch can't make it and is sending her Shadow Health Secretary instead Even more tricky are the red lines that have *already* been set down Kemi Badenoch says she will only support reform if it's *all* funded by spending cuts (no borrowing or tax rises) so finding genuine cross party agreement looks... challenging... to say the least Andy Burnham has a House of Commons majority so he technically doesn't need opposition party votes - but things could be very tricky without them (remember the "death tax"?) and many other PM's dreams of lasting social care reform have been crushed by political reality Burnham says this is the one issue he's prepared to expend his political capital on... and judging by the early signs he might need to






It is the people of Clacton who gave me a mandate. It is they who should judge my actions. Not the media and MPs in Westminster.



🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham reportedly has no plans to live in No 10 and will remain at his home in Manchester It would make him the first PM since Harold Wilson not to live in No 10














