The Reform UK leader resigned as the MP for Clacton at the start of July and forced a byelection
Yvette Cooper, the health secretary, has said the government will need to persuade the public that everyone will benefit from social care reform, and not just families where someone gets dementia.
She made the point in an interview with George Osborne on his Political Currency podcast.
I think the thing we always failed to do is have a sense that this actually affects everybody. Because as long as you think, ‘Well, it might not affect my family, it’s not something I really need to worry about or focus on,’ that’s a problem.
The fact that it has such a massive impact now on our NHS, the fact that if you go to A&E, you could be waiting a lot longer because of failings in social care, that you could be waiting longer to get a bed in hospital, because there are people who are in hospital who don’t have social care – it affects all of us.
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2026-08-13 10:04:00
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