Politics latest news: Social care tax plan will have 'no consensus' but nation must deal with it, says minister

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : She also noted that the cap would only help between 30 and 50,000 people - but a million people use social care.
48% : The proposed rise in National Insurance will "hit younger workers and lower paid workers" hardest, Labour's shadow social care minister has said.
46% : The row over how to pay for social care reform must not become a "conflict between generations", a minister has said.
41% : So Boris Johnson might have hoped to be greeted with better headlines than today's, with widespread criticism of his as-yet-unannounced plan to deal with social care.
17% : Plans to raise National Insurance to pay for social care have been criticised by three former Conservative chancellors - Philip Hammond, Ken Clarke and Norman Lamont - as well as several cabinet ministers, backbench MPs, business leaders and the Labour party.
16% : Plans to raise National Insurance to pay for social care have been criticised by three former Conservative chancellors as Boris Johnson faces a growing backlash over the proposal.

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