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Coffee House Shots

Is Labour serious about social care reform?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year and – of course – happy new long-term social care plan. Not only has Labour announced a ‘longer-term’ solution to a problem the party itself has acknowledged is urgent by setting up a commission that won’t report until 2028, but it has also taken steps to make that reform even harder to realise by saying it is looking for a ‘cross-party solution’. Should we interpret this as Labour kicking the can down the road? And is Labour developing a reputation for shirking its responsibility when it comes to the most vulnerable in society?

Oscar Edmondson speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Heale.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson.

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0:00.0

It's Ed Balls and me, George Osborne, here from our podcast Political Currency.

0:05.6

And we're really excited to tell you about a special series with David Cameron on the first six months as Prime Minister.

0:12.1

Letters to Trident submarine captains, hostage crises, that first budget.

0:17.0

There's so much we pack into those first few months.

0:20.0

This is David Cameron, as you've never heard him before.

0:23.2

It's Barack Obama on the telephone going, well done, David, enjoyed this moment.

0:26.9

It's all downhill from here.

0:28.2

I've had my rouse with sarcozy over the years, but whenever I see him, I always give him this big hug.

0:33.3

Thank him for letting me see my dad before he died.

0:35.7

Listen, enjoy, be provoked.

0:37.7

Inside number 10, David Cameron, the first six months.

0:40.4

Search for political currency wherever you get your podcast.

0:48.6

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

0:52.8

I'm Oscar Remenson, and I'm joined today by

0:54.6

James Heel and Isabel Hartman. Now, happy new year to you both and a very happy new long-term

1:01.3

social care plan as well. Westreating has today announced a long-term plan for the increasingly

1:07.1

urgent issue of social care. Isabel, could you maybe just start by taking us through the strategy here?

1:13.1

Well, this is by my counting, the seventh commission on social care since 1997.

1:18.9

So I don't know what they're expecting to find that they haven't already found in the reams,

1:24.8

towers of documents about solutions to the social care crisis, which, as you say, has been a crisis for a long time and is just becoming a sort of a higher story crisis.

1:37.1

You know, that blackadder with carpeting throughout and a neon sign on the front saying, this is a large crisis.

1:43.0

I mean, we're now at the sort of Birch-Khalifa height of crisis

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