Sentences with phrase «dementia tax»

When historians write about this election — in so far as they can bothered — they won't talk about dementia tax, or fields of wheat, or a politician forgetting their sums.

The Tories» dementia tax U-turn will be remembered as the story of this election, no matter what the outcome - but by the wretched standards of this campaign, it's small fry.

The report was not welcomed by all, with a former Tory pensions minister warning that the national insurance recommendations would be as unpopular with voters as the abandoned election plans for a so - called dementia tax.

Pledges from the Tories» suicide note manifesto - axeing universal free school lunches, the infamous dementia tax - are set for the chop.

Powerful Tory backbencher Graham Brady has hit out at Theresa May's vote - losing campaign, blaming dementia tax for the ballot box savaging.

I think the days are over, when a governing party puts in a manifesto a known potential net vote loser are over (e.g dementia tax).

«Social care, specifically the so called «dementia tax», should be an area where we are better off working together, and taking the risk jointly.

Manifesto decisions such as the cataclysmic policy which became dubbed the «dementia tax» were not communicated even to members of the Cabinet until the last minute, allowing no time for proper scrutiny and challenge.

The Tories wanted to rebrand themselves as the party of workers, but then came out with a string of indescribably stupid missteps - the idiotic own goal of repealing the ban on fox hunting, the shambles of the dementia tax, the double - edged self - own of axeing universal free school meals without ending school funding cuts.

Means - testing of the winter fuel payment and the controversial «dementia tax», where the Government planned to make elderly people pay for their own social care, did not make the Speech either.

The so - called «dementia tax» floated in the party manifesto re-ignited people's fears of harsh Tory social policies and alienated core constituencies.

The manifesto pledge on social care, nicknamed the dementia tax by its critics, was concerning for many older voters.

Social care needs funds, so May and Timothy came up with the dementia tax.

Her manifesto is full of gruel served on silver platters, best summed up by how the headline proposal for «workers» rights» turned out to be the right to take a year's unpaid leave to care for a relative - presumably to avoid the dementia tax.

After all, he was the genius behind the dementia tax, disastrously scribbled into the manifesto at the last moment with no Cabinet input.

This is the first poll since the dementia tax row, and that seems a more plausible explanation.»

This was just after the Conservatives launched their manifesto but before the big weekend furore about the «dementia tax» and the subsequent change in policy, which took place on Monday.

The dementia tax fiasco threatens the Tories» chances, but on the demographics, and given Ukip's absence, this looks a more makeable Tory target than ultra-marginal Ealing Central.

Until the dementia tax fiasco, this list was Labour's soft underbelly.

• Labour supporters who switched to the Tories early in the campaign, were scared off by the dementia tax and the possible return of fox hunting, and have come back to the fold • Supporters of smaller parties - the Lib Dems, the Greens and to a lesser extent Ukip - switching to Labour • Young voters

Fact was many people thought labour would do very poor, so voted labour as a protest against the Tories, on the likes of the Dementia tax, but didn't actually want labour to win, the Tories are still imploding, labour is in the rise, I'm not saying labour wouldn't win a election, if it was called tommorow, but thre are people who voted labour thinking we wouldn't win, so did it anyway, who won't vote labour next time, as they're worried we would win.

May has already dropped plans to push through social care funding changes dubbed the «dementia tax», and an expansion of grammar schools since the election.

Coupled with the unforced fiasco over social care, «dementia tax», abolition of the winter fuel allowance for pensioners and end of school lunches, she became unelectable.