Labour will raise taxes in the UK to their highest level since just after the Second World War – and ordinary families will take a hit, economists said yesterday.
Source: Think tank warns of ‘dishonest’ Labour tax plans | Daily Mail Online
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Conservative manifesto fails to address the real cost of long term care funding | Care Industry News
Commenting on the Conservative party manifesto proposals on social care, published last week, LaingBuisson founder and healthcare economist William Laing said:
“A ‘manifesto mouse’ looks to be a fair description of the Conservative party proposals on social care funding published last week.
They amount to half of Dilnot (the £100,000 capital threshold) but not the other half (the lifetime cap on care costs), and it is to be partly financed by making homecare subject to a capital means test, which commentators have been at pains to point out for the first time includes the value of owner occupiers’ homes.
Extension of deferred payments to all will make it more palatable, but
Source: Conservative manifesto fails to address the real cost of long term care funding | Care Industry News
David Cameron Faces Early Salvo From Tory Backbench Over EU Exit Ultimatum
Original post from Huffington Post
‘…………. By Aubrey Allegretti
David Cameron has been told he risks “turning a decent debate into a bitter argument” after the Prime Minister warned he would sack any minister who campaigned to leave the European Union.
Cameron hinted last night the Government would not be “neutral” on the issue of whether the UK quits Europe, and insisted that everyone in his administration was signed up to his strategy of securing sufficient reform through renegotiation to allow them to recommend a Yes vote.
He said: “If you want to be part of the Government you have to take the view that we are engaged in an exercise of renegotiation to have a referendum and that will lead to a successful outcome.
“Everyone in government has signed up to the programme set out in the Conservative manifesto.”
Cameron’s latest comments come after US President Barack Obama made a very public intervention in the debate by declaring that America was “looking forward” to the United Kingdom remaining part of the EU.
He gave his strongest indication yet that Washington wants a Yes vote in the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU as he met the Prime Minister for talks in the margins of the G7 summit of world leaders in Schloss Elmau, Germany.
Outspoken backbencher David Davis on Monday morning warned his party leader against “turning a decent debate into a bitter argument”.
The veteran MP claimed the Prime Minister’s ‘back me or resign’ ultimatum showed he was wary there was a lack of confidence from Eurosceptic parliamentarians.
“It’s pretty plain – there’s not much room to interpret that anybody who’s going to vote against and campaign against continued membership of the European Union would have to leave Government, which is something of a change from what was presumed, I think, really right up to the election, and in my view a rather unwise change…
“This is a once in a lifetime, history-changing event, and for many people it’s the reason they came into politics – not mine, but for some it is – and yet the only people who will not have the freedom to vote and speak [inaudible] are ministers in the Government. That itself is extraordinary. That will likely lead, I’m sorry to say, to some people resigning from the Government or being fired,” Davis told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“You’re going to have decent people who care deeply about the country’s future and this is, for some of them, the biggest issue. And they are going to end up resigning from Government – it’s that simple.”
James Wharton, a Communities and Local Government minister, rebutted Davis’s comments, insisting it was a “long-established principle” that MPs would have to resign from the top table if they wanted to oppose the Prime Minister during the EU referendum campaign.
“On big issues like this – we saw it recently on the Scottish referendum – the Government itself takes a position. We have a long-established principle of collective responsibility,” he said on Monday.
“If the Government is taking a government position, if collective responsibility is applied, if you don’t want to support that position you have to leave. You are then free to campaign for whatever you want, to vote for whoever you want.
“If we get to a position where the Government’s position is that this renegotiation has been successful – and the details will be there for everyone to see when we get to that point – then it is reasonable to expect that collective responsibility will apply.”
Asked about the new CfB group campaigning for withdrawal from the EU, Mr Cameron said: “In the end, people have to make up their own mind. But it will be the public, it will be the people that decide, not one group of MPs or another group of MPs.”
At least 50 Tory MPs, including former Cabinet ministers Owen Paterson and John Redwood, on Sunday signed up to the newly-formed Conservatives for Britain (CfB) to keep the pressure on ahead on the popular vote.
The group’s Westminster chairman, Conservative Steve Baker, said there were “dozens” of Tory MPs who would vote to quit the EU now and would not settle for anything less than “fundamental change”.
“If we don’t get a sovereign Parliament, I would be quite surprised if one or two don’t resign. But that really is a matter for them,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live, but refused to be drawn on which ministers he was referring to.
Mr Cameron has previously refused to rule out campaigning for a British exit if his renegotiation bid fails but has insisted he is “confident” of securing changes.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond – who said in 2013 he would vote to quit the EU if conditions remained as they were then – said the Government is keeping “all our options open” over Britain’s future.
He told BBC 1’s Andrew Marr Show: “If our European partners were to simply block us and say look we can’t do any of this stuff, we can’t meet any of your demands, we can’t fix this relationship between Britain and the European Union then, of course, we have got to keep all our options open.”
Hammond is one of six Cabinet members identified by the Telegraph as potential ‘Brexit’ campaigners, the others including Iain Duncan Smith, Sajid Javid, Michael Gove, Michael Fallon and Boris Johnson.
Of the top ranking ministers, the Eurosceptic and former Tory leader Ian Duncan Smith is thought to be the most likely to quit the Government in favour of being able to call for a ‘no’ vote in the upcoming referendum. Our executive editor for Politics, Paul Waugh, has more.
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