Andy Burnham
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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And then we end up in a really bad and divided place.
There is, but Tony Blair's right about that.
I think radical people do need to be more sensible at times and sensible people need to get out of the sort of incremental change and start talking again about how does politics fix the big things.
So social care, perhaps we're going to come on to this.
I feel that my generation of politicians is guilty of a shameful dereliction of duty, political cowardice of the worst kind in saying that this issue is too difficult and we're not going to touch it.
We're just going to leave it.
This is about basic care of fellow human beings and those who are vulnerable.
And we're saying that politics can't address that.
But that's where we got to.
And we got to it through that normal behavior of Westminster.
When I put forward an idea in 2010 for a national care service, that was branded a death tax.
And Theresa May came forward and put forward some proposed a dementia tax.
That kind of creates a situation where everyone says, oh, well, don't go there.
But what a failure that is.
What a failure.
30 years since the Royal Commission on Social Care, barely anything has really changed.
In fact, social care has gone backwards.
And doesn't that just say something about how politics has really fallen, if you like?
It has to be radical.
We'd have never created the NHS if we weren't radical as a country at times.
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