The Archbishop of Canterbury has kicked off 2023 by putting the Church of England on a collision course with Rishi Sunak's government. Read joncraig's full analysis 👇
Social care has been a political minefield for the last four Tory prime ministers: Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and now Rishi Sunak.It derailed Mrs May's ill-fated 2017 general election campaign, when her plan was brutally attacked as a"dementia tax", prompting a mid-campaign U-turn and then a"nothing has changed" claim that defied credibility.
But when she became PM, Ms Truss axed the levy as one of the tax cuts in her disastrous mini-budget that cost the country £30 billion. Mr Welby is obviously determined to make sure that does not happen. His report, coming in a month when many NHS staff are staging strikes over pay, is likely to recommend better pay for carers, a recipe for a bitter clash with ministers.
In the mid-80s, the Church of England under Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie published a scathing report called Faith in the City, a damning indictment of UK cities under Thatcherism.Mrs Thatcher's allies branded it"Marxist" and Conservative MPs suggested the Church of England had become"the SDP at prayer", a reference to the party of Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams and David Owen.
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