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Barbara Keeley, Labour’s Shadow Mental Health Minister, responding to the Tories’ social care announcement ahead of their manifesto, said:

“You can’t trust the Tories’ promises on social care. In their last manifesto they promised a cap on care costs. But they broke their promise, letting older and vulnerable people down.

“It’s the Tories who have pushed social care into crisis; their cuts to councils have meant £4.6bn axed from social care budgets between 2010-2015, leaving 1.2 million people struggling to get by without care. And NHS bosses have recently said that the money the Tories promised them won’t help alleviate the problems, with bosses warning the system won’t see anything like the level of resource required.

“We need real action to fix the system, not reheated broken promises with little detail about how they’ll be delivered.

“While the Tories offer more of the same failure and broken promises, Labour has pledged action. We’ll increase social care budgets by £8bn over the lifetime of the Parliament, including an additional £1bn for the first year. We will set up a National Care Service to provide the care that people deserve.”

Ahead of the Conservative Party’s Manifesto launch, Labour is today publishing a document looking at the Tories’ record of broken promises.

The document – entitled: ‘One Tory Manifesto. Two years of Failure. 50 Broken Promises’ – lists 50 examples of when the Conservatives broke their word. From the NHS to education, from living standards to policing, the Tories have broken their promises time and again. 

·         They promised on the economy, but they have missed every debt and deficit target they set themselves

·         They promised to raise living standards, but working families are set to be on average over £1,400 a year worse off

·         They promised to improve all standards of NHS care, but A&Es are in their worst state on record and hospitals are in financial crisis

·         They promised to protect school spending, but per pupil spending is going down and class sizes are soaring

As they launch their latest manifesto, it is a reminder that the Tories can’t be trusted to keep their word.

Andrew Gwynne, Labour’s National Election Co-ordinator, said:

“When Theresa May launches the Tory manifesto we can expect her to make a raft of promises to the British people. But, as the Conservatives make their latest solemn pledge there’s one thing we must bear in mind: we’ve been here before.

“Theresa May pretends otherwise, but she is a politician with a track record of failure and broken promises. From the economy to the NHS, and policing to schools, Theresa May’s Tories have failed again and again to deliver on the pledges they made.

“They made promises, they quickly broke them; they would do so again. The Tories can’t be trusted. Britain cannot afford five more years of them and their broken promises.”