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What difference did the polls make to the election?
Stewart Wood, senior adviser to Ed Miliband when he was Leader of the Labour Party, believes the polls must have been wrong for all the years of Ed Miliband’s leadership
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Waiting times for surgery in Wales have risen dramatically in the last four years under Labour. But the way funding is allocated to the devolved administrations fails to account for the needs of the population. FactCheck looks at the figures.
Putting an elderly parent into a care home can be an agonising decision. The costs can be crippling and will they be well looked after – happy, safe and clean? According to the Care Quality Commission, in a third of nursing homes in England the answer is “no”.
According to NHS Digital, there were a total of 285,893 nurses and health visitors working across the whole of the NHS in March this year, compared to 280,950 in May 2010.
The Tories have come under fire after announcing reforms to social care policy in their manifesto last month. But amid the media furore, you might have missed the detail of the policy and the subsequent u-turn. What could it mean for you?
Labour would raise public spending and taxes, while the Conservatives are offering more austerity.
It didn’t take long. With poll numbers slipping just four days after their controversial manifesto pledge to make elderly people pay for their social care at home, Theresa May has abandoned the policy, saying the Tories would now consider a cap on costs. Labour said her government was mired in “chaos and confusion”, while the…
The prime minister has been accused of a ‘manifesto meltdown’ after U-turning on the Dementia Tax. Some of her claims don’t pass the FactCheck test.
Behind the rhetoric, is there any real difference in what the three parties offer voters?
There is no balance sheet that tells us how all this is supposed to add up…
“Mortality will continue to improve and individuals will continue to live longer.”
More than a million elderly people across the country are left without the care they need, according to Age UK. That’s a steep rise over the last year and, says the charity, evidence that a combination of spending cuts and rising demand have left social care “in a state of collapse”.
The pressure on councils to find the cash for more homes could not come at a worse time for many. Already struggling to fund social care for the elderly, many are now finding council tenants falling into rent arrears because of the changeover to universal credit.
Perhaps the simpler explanation is the more likely one: children really are being orphaned in Syria, or left wounded and distressed, and those children are now being wrongly accused of involvement in an elaborate conspiracy.
Stewart Wood, senior adviser to Ed Miliband when he was Leader of the Labour Party, believes the polls must have been wrong for all the years of Ed Miliband’s leadership
The Prime Minister made the unusual step of intervening when he heard that his local council in Oxfordshire are planning a string of cuts – but is it really the leafy green belt feeling the brunt of cuts?