“Instead, we are delivering Northern Powerhouse Rail, which will see high-speed services running from Manchester to Leeds in around 33 minutes, from Liverpool to Manchester in around 35 minutes, double capacity to Leeds and more than treble capacity to Liverpool. “Sticking dogmatically to previous plans would see passengers waiting decades for change, and condemn many communities to no improvements at all.
This is an inheritance tax on the poorest pensioners to protect the wealth of millionaires.”Ī Government spokesperson said: “Our £96 billion investment into the railways of the north and Midlands is an ambitious and deliverable plan to transform journeys and bring benefits 10 years sooner than under previous plans.
There are zero in London and the South East. There are 107 constituencies in the north of England where the average house price is less than £186,000. “This con will hammer people living in houses worth less than £186,000. And ministers are doing this to protect millionaires in their mansions in London and the South East,” she will say. “It will force pensioners in the North and pensioners on the lowest incomes and with the least wealth to sell their homes. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman insisted the policy was the “correct approach” when asked if the remark was an admission some may have to sell their homes to pay for care.īut Ms Rayner will say that the reforms, dubbed a “working class dementia tax” by Labour, are equivalent to “robbing Ashton to protect Ashford” and “hammering Hyde to help out Henley”. MPs criticised the change to the £86,000 cap to only include individual payments, and not the contributions of local authorities, because it will cost poorer recipients more in assets than the wealthy.ĭowning Street initially declined to say whether the reforms would fulfil a Tory pledge at the last general election to guarantee “nobody needing care should be forced to sell their home to pay for it”.īut Mr Johnson apparently downgraded the commitment earlier this week, telling his Cabinet that “no-one will be forced to sell a home they or their spouse is living in as it will not be counted as an asset”, according to No 10’s account of the meeting. There was also outrage across the political spectrum last week over the news that a planned cap on social care costs would be less generous than expected. “We’ve got the jobs of the future right here in the North but our transport links are still stuck in the last century,” she will say. In a speech at Labour’s North West Conference in Blackpool on Saturday, she will call the plan a “disgraceful sell-out”, and the Northern Powerhouse itself “a lie”. But Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner will say that the move is a “betrayal of trust, a betrayal of promises made to our communities and a betrayal of the North”.
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