Liz Kendall MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Care and Older People, responding to reports that the care costs cap could be delayed until 2020, said:

“This is a shameful broken promise from David Cameron, and devastating news for older people and their families who have been trying to plan for the future. Not only has he failed to tackle the crisis in social care, David Cameron is now going back on the already watered-down proposals to protect people from catastrophic costs of care at the end of their lives.

“As we clearly saw in last week’s Budget, this is a Government that gives with one hand and takes with another. While they found the money to pay for an inheritance tax cut for the most well-off, they are rowing back on their manifesto promise to cap the cost of care for the many.

“The Tories owe people an apology for this latest failure to sort out social care.”

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