UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has delivered a speech on social care reform that revisits proposals from his 2010 efforts, which previously failed due to right-wing media opposition. Commentary suggests that current political conditions now favour reform efforts that previously stalled.
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Right-wing media hostility helped sink his reform plans in 2010, but the new PM’s passionate speech suggests there is now clear political will for change For campaigners perpetually disappointed by the failure of England’s political classes to fix England’s creaking adult social care system, the fear was that Andy Burnham’s long-trailed speech would be less Brave New World, more Groundhog Day. Bur
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