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Going to be for borisjohnson in terms of presenting this, given manifesto commitments? well, it will be awkward and it will be difficult and he will have to make the case because there appears to be no other way that he can keep his promise that he made when he became prime minister to fix the problem of social care once and for all without breaking that other promise that he made at the election just a few months later in the conservative party manifesto not to raise vat, national insurance or income tax and if it does end up that the government proposes doing just that then he's going to hav...

Was that no—one has a monopoly of wisdom about these issues, and the british public are sensible enough to know that when it comes to the issue of social care we've got to find some way in which it will be adequately funded. now, as i said, i'm not going to, you know, start speculating as to precisely what that will entail. but, you know, having a grown—up conversation with people is what we should be doing — and i'm glad to say that that certainly is happening in the context of social care. so, jonathan, whether this is pitched as a tax increase over the health care premium, obvious it ...