Tories need to come clean on social care cap before election.
Posted
on May 29
UKIP Economic Spokesman Patrick O’Flynn has demanded Theresa May and her
ministers declare before polling day what cap they intend to impose on social
care bills.
He has also suggested voters use Twitter to contact their local Tory
candidate using the hashtag #whatisthecap to increase pressure for a further
climbdown.
Mr O’Flynn last week led calls for a cap to be imposed after the Tory
manifesto proposed taking bills out of the estates of deceased persons who had
needed social care on a completely uncapped basis.
Following an outcry, Theresa May performed a partial U-turn by announcing
there would after all be a cap. But she has so far refused to say what it will
be or even give an approximate figure.
On Sunday, Home Secretary Amber Rudd failed to deny suggestions by Andrew
Marr that the cap could be as high as
£300,000.
