Archbishop of Canterbury criticises social care tax rise

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Welby told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that "the question of how you pay for social care, pay for the care of the elderly and particularly the poorest elderly is a really difficult one".
42% : Helen Whately, the care minister, defended the NICs rise, saying: "I don't want us to raise tax, but we had a really difficult choice here."
42% : She told Sky News: "We know we desperately need to do social care reform, and governments for decades have not been able to work out the way to fund that, to move that forward.
38% : Boris Johnson's plan to increase national insurance contributions to raise £12bn for the NHS and social care could pose a "serious problem" for low-income workers, the archbishop of Canterbury has said.

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