Plans for a national care service after the next general election are expected to be central to Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as prime minister this afternoon. On Novara Live, Helena says that nationalising social care would undoubtedly provide a solution to the “horror stories” that come out of private care homes. But the problem is that the UK is “allergic to taxation” – and that’s why successive governments have been unable to fix failing public services over the last 50 years.

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