Kate Garraway describes 'excessive debt' left by husband Derek's care costs as she confronts Health Secretary

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "Political consensus about who shoulders the costs of social care must be established, Mr Streeting said.
48% : "One of the reasons I genuinely think - even with the majority of the size that we've got - it's a good thing to try and build cross-party consensus, is I want to come up with a plan that means whoever's in government after the next general election or the one after that, whether it's a Labour government or a Conservative government or a coalition, or whoever, that broadly speaking, we keep the same direction of travel on social care in the way that we have with the NHS since 1948.
44% : The timeline means that proposals for the long-term funding and major reform of social care in England may not be delivered until 2028.
41% : He replied: "I think one of the reasons why we've ended always back into this short-termist cycle of failure is: whenever we talk about social care, there are costs involved.

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