Boris Johnson tore up conservative fiscal orthodoxy this week when he announced a whopping

tax rise to fix the UK's quick social care system after the pandemic.

They're having spent £407 billion or more to support lives and livelihoods throughout

the pandemic.

From furlough to vaccines, it would be wrong for me to say that we can pay for this recovery

without taking the difficult but responsible decisions about how we finance it.

Welcome to Payne's Politics, your essential insider guide to what's happening in British

politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne.

This week we'll be analysing the Prime Minister's gamble on social care reform, what the

plan involves and whether the Conservative Party and its voters will swallow such big tax

rises.

Our political editor George Parker and economics editor Chris Chalves would dissect the

details.

And later, we'll be looking at how the government hopes to try and avoid another coronavirus

lockdown this winter through vaccine passports and booster jams, but with cases already running

high, our hospitals going to be overwhelmed.

Health editors Sarah Neville and science reporter Oliver Barnes will discuss.

With plans to dive into, let's get into the main topic of the week.

Outside Downing Street, on the morning after he was reelected Prime Minister, boys Johnson

pledged to solve the UK's creaking social care system once and for all.

He claimed to have an oven ready plan to happen sure the old and vulnerable would not

be left having to sell off all their worldly goods in order to pay for their care.

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