A missed opportunity? Why Labour's social care policy has had a lukewarm response | David Brindle

Experts are unconvinced the party’s flagship pledge on free personal care will solve crisisThe Labour party’s commitment to free personal care in England has been long in the making and hard-won by its advocates, notably the shadow social care and mental health minister, Barbara Keeley. So why has it not received a warmer and less qualified welcome?Most experts acknowledge that the new policy is, in the words of the King’s Fund health and care thinktank, “a good step&rdqu