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  Ex-health tory minister: Launch ‘age tax’ on over-40s to fund social care

  Posted by Nigel on 29 December 2020 at 11:56 am

  A former UK health secretary has proposed taxing the over-40s to cover the costs of social care for the elderly.

  Jeremy Hunt, Conservative chair of parliament’s health and social care committee, called for “boldness” from prime minister Boris Johnson, his rival for the party leadership last year.

  Hunt said Johnson should seize the opportunity created by his large majority in the Commons and the public mood in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.

  “I just think the year after the pandemic, if we don’t do it now, it really is now or never. Because the public have never understood better how important our care system is,” he told PA.

  The current funding model for social care is widely seen as unfit for purpose, leaving huge bills for many who need care and significant pressure on cash-strapped local authorities and providers.

  But efforts to fix the system have repeatedly hit a wall, with ministers shying away from reform as many proposals have sparked a fierce backlash.

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