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Tory manifesto: Social care plan 'unsustainable'

Theresa May has launched the Conservative Party's election manifesto - Forward Together. It contains new measures to curb immigration, aims to balance the budget by 2025 and has sweeping changes to the way social care will be funded in England.

Baroness Ros Altmann served as pensions minister from 2015 until 2016 in the Conservative government.

She acknowledges that the government is trying to do something "radical to address social care" but she
has reservations about whether or not it is sustainable, telling ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4's World at One that the cost of care "depends on where you live and whether you own your own home" but also on "what is wrong with you".

(Photo: Baroness Ros Altmann, former Conservative pensions minister Credit: Getty Images)

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