Starmer is powerful enough to reform social care - he's choosing not to

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : But given there doesn't seem to be a huge inclination to get the thing done in the case of social care, it is surprising Casey wants to go anywhere near this review.
59% : But that's enough of being fair to Louise Casey, because this week the Government has confirmed that it doesn't want to get things done on social care, really, and that it's perfectly happy to have an entire electoral cycle of drift on the overall question of funding and standards.
52% : That's the problem with social care reform - none of the options are low cost or low effort, whether you believe in a high level of state intervention and therefore higher taxes, or whether you think it is better organised in a more atomised way.
49% : The Prime Minister has long admitted when pushed that full reform of social care would not come until the second term of a LabourGovernment, and if he insists on sticking to that then the best to hope for is that medium term changes are better than nothing.

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