Dementia tax: Tory MPs urged to back Labour push to scrap policy

Opposition day debate will call on Conservatives to confirm they will ditch unpopular manifesto pledge

The shadow social care minister has called on Conservative MPs to renounce the so-called “dementia tax”, proposed in the party’s election manifesto, before a debate in parliament on the social care crisis.

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