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Boris Johnson faces growing red wall rebellion over social care tax rises

Sep 06, 2021 View Original Article
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    -60% Medium Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    60% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -64% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : We can't just raise it without a new way of providing social care."
52% : "We must act now to ensure the health and care system has the long-term funding it needs to continue fighting Covid and start tackling the backlogs, and end the injustice of catastrophic costs for social care.
46% : In the long term, funding will be used for social care costs once a patient reaches a costs cap, thought to be about £80,000.
46% : "People want to focus on the cap and how it would be funded and Labour's position, but all of the users of social care are saying: 'This is nothing about what we want,'" she said, pointing to low-paid staff and the lack of support for unpaid carers. "
45% : One Conservative frontbencher told the Guardian they were considering their position over a planned national insurance rise to fund an overhaul of social care and tackle the NHS backlog.
42% : However, the shadow social care minister, Liz Kendall, said the focus on the cap was failing to address wider problems with social care.
41% : He said: "My concern is if they just add an extra 1% on national insurance or whatever, but no actual fundamental way to make social care provision better, it's a bit pointless ...
38% : Alex Stafford, who represents Rother Valley in South Yorkshire, said he hoped taxes would not be raised "willy-nilly" without concrete plans for how the money would be used.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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