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UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, asked the insurance industry should protect people from selling their homes to pay the cost of care. At the same time, he encountered a backlash over his £12 billion-a-year reforms.
The Prime Minister was urged by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in the Commons over how his program could match the Tory election pledge.
Then Mr Johnson mentioned that he plans to cap care expenses in England at £86,000, paid for by a new tax.
He believed this plan would provide insurance firms to made new products to protect people’s assets.
He is also being asked by the Commons how the new design will work. He answered, “This is the first time that the country has grown in to deal with the menace of these catastrophic costs.”
Through permitting the private sector, the financial services industry, to supply the insurance products that people need to secure themselves versus the costs of care, added him.
Sir Keir Starmer in the Commons questioned the Prime Minister decision by where does the Prime Minister think that people are going to get that £86,000 without selling their home.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid commented about the decision to reject the election pledge to present £12 billion extra a year for the NHS and adult social care. He said it was the sign of a “responsible and serious government”. However, he recognised the extra money was probably not enough to clear NHS waiting lists.
The number of people infected with Covid-19 in the UK, where most restrictions have been lifted, is approaching record levels in relative indifference, according to estimates published on Friday 25 March.
The Duke of York had vowed to fight to clear his name in court after being charged by Virginia Giuffre. Ms Giuffre became a victim who he sexually assaulted in three different circumstances when she was 17.
During a trip to the Caribbean, a photo of the British royal couple has crystallized many critics.
The UK's new sanctions on Russia will target individuals ranging from oligarchs to celebrities.
Banksy's work, CND Soldiers, has been sold at auction in London. The proceeds of the sale will go to a children's hospital in Ukraine.
The tragic loss of Mohananeethan 'Mohan' Muruganantharajah at Sgwd Y Pannwr waterfall in the Brecon Beacons has left the community in shock and mourning
Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced that hundreds of postmasters who were wrongly convicted in the Post Office scandal will be cleared under new emergency laws.
EIMA International is the International Exposition of Machinery for Agriculture and Gardening, a biennial event created in 1969 by FederUnacoma.