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Social care reform: here's why this tax rise isn't just unfair on young people

  • Written by Janette Rutterford, Emeritus Professor of Finance and Financial History, The Open University

In announcing his plan for funding social care reform in England and the NHS COVID recovery, prime minister Boris Johnson has to honour a promise he made two years ago on the steps of Downing Street.

The proposals outlined for a health and social care levy resurrect, albeit with different numbers, a series of proposals outlined over a decade ago...