Warning Burnham’s social care plan could cost far more than he says, and take ‘decades’ to implement – UK politics live

Statistician Andrew Dilnot says that putting social care on the same footing as health care would cost ‘well in excess of £18bn’ Wes Streeting, the defence secretary, has been doing the morning interview round for Labour. Mostly he has been talking about the suspected bomb plot at RAF Fairford. Yohannes Lowe is covering all the developments on that story on...