Is Truss's social care pledge more borrowing in disguise?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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'This is the second time in her campaign that she has done something which has made me really doubt whether she's serious about her economic mission. And the other time, of course, was when she announced that she'd do regional pay.' - Fraser Nelson.
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| 0:24.4 | I'm Kate Andrews and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Katie Boles. |
| 0:28.0 | We had yet another leadership posting last night in Birmingham. |
| 0:31.5 | Katie Liz trusts double down on promises for money for healthcare and social care. |
| 0:37.2 | But in a bit of a twist, she suggested that the money that is currently going to healthcare |
| 0:42.4 | should actually be going to social care first as it was the real emergency. |
| 0:46.6 | What exactly did she say? |
| 0:48.6 | This was interesting because we already know that this trust plans to scrap the national |
| 0:54.1 | insurance rise while keeping the health and social care levy. |
| 0:58.5 | And I think where we got to last night was this trust said that she would pretty much |
| 1:02.9 | immediately on becoming Prime Minister, make sure all the money coming from this, which |
| 1:08.0 | isn't actually going to be coming from national insurance at this point, but from general |
| 1:10.7 | taxation, but the money which will now be coming from general taxation will go straight |
| 1:15.1 | to social care. |
| 1:16.1 | And she said this would be important because it would reduce the number of beds being |
| 1:20.4 | used in hospitals and this is a large illogical behind her decision. |
| 1:25.2 | Now of course, when it comes to the levy, it was always the case that it should eventually |
| 1:29.9 | go in social care, but the point was in the first few years, it would be used to clear |
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