The prime minister has watered down his pledge that no one will have to sell their home to pay for social care.
The PM is holding out against a climbdown on its provision despite a Tory rebellion in the Commons on Monday.
Yesterday morning Boris Johnson told his cabinet that the reforms would mean that “no one will be forced to sell a home they or their spouse is living in”. This is being seen as a tacit acknowledgment that a home could be sold once the person needing care or their spouse no longer occupied their property.
Age UK said this is significantly less categorical than the 2019 Conservative manifesto, which offered a “guarantee that no one needing care has to sell their home to pay for it”.
