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I'm Katie Bors and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Versafe, and it is back to school for MPs.

MPs have returned to Parliament today for the new term, and Boris Johnson's intro is rather full.

James, the stories that has been leading the newspapers

over the weekend relates to social care and how the Prime Minister plans to fund this plan.

And we're hearing the announcement is still likely Tuesday, but there's some wrangling going on.

Can you explain?

Well, the first in-person cabinet meeting is Tuesday, and given the level of cabinet

disquired about this policy, they obviously need to get, I mean, I don't mean cabinet are going to get

the chance to kind of bin the policy. These days, we are a long way from that kind of cabinet

government and have been for some time. But what I think is true is that you don't want to

have a cabinet meeting and then so obviously announce a policy straight afterwards that the meeting is a pure rubber stamp.

That's one of the things that most infuriates ministers.

I think the difficulty for the Tory party is that two manifesto commitments and a pledge

George Johnson made when he first went into the Down Street as Prime Minister are all in direct conflict with each other.

The Prime Minister said promised to fix social care.

The Tories have promised that people won't have to sell their houses to pay for care.

That's in the manifesto.

But the manifesto also promised not to raise people's taxes.

The problem is you cannot come up of a solution,

which means that people don't have to sell their houses to pay for their care without raising taxes. So, you know, choose your poison. And Boris Johnson has decided that

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