Henry Zeffman
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1,893 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Henry Zeffman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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These are the stuff of politics and the stuff of political parties.
So whether you can get a cross-party consensus there...
I think that is a very tall order.
That's what we think is being talked about here, the cost of providing the care rather than, as you say, the costs of accommodation and associated costs.
But again, I think it's...
A blank canvas, not in the sense that no one has talked about this before.
I mean, this is an extremely... This has been an extremely well-discussed issue over decades, including by Andy Burnham himself.
But it's a bit of a blank canvas, what Andy Burnham wants to try to solve in the first instance.
And, of course, he is also inheriting a...
Government review, which is meant to be coming up with at least some sort of a solution to some of these questions, because Keir Starmer commissioned Louise Casey, former senior civil servant, as well as all purpose government troubleshooter, to look at this after he came into office.
But to the frustration of quite a lot of people around Keir Starmer at the top of his government, he said that she wouldn't report until 2028.
I think one of the things we might hear from Andy Burnham this week is that he wants Louise Casey to report back sooner than that, perhaps next year, 2027.
And that would then give him a period of time, although not a massive period of time, before the likely next general election for him to begin enacting
either her reforms or some version of her reforms that he himself would like to pursue.
Yeah, I mean, there was one story in a newspaper suggesting that Andy Burnham might be looking at abolishing council tax and stamp duty and replacing them with a new sort of land value tax that would be paid continuously or annually or whatever it may be.
Now...
That got a lot of attention because obviously it would be a radical tax shift and would conform with some things which Andy Burnham has talked about wanting to explore in the past.
But obviously, if that were to be left in the ether as a possibility...
it would have risked gumming up the housing market because people might think, well, I'm not going to move now if there's a possibility that this new prime minister and new chancellor, John Healey, are going to announce the abolition of stamp duty in just a few months' time.
Anyway, for anyone who read that story and got excited or indeed thought it was the wrong thing to do, the government's prime minister's spokesperson has said this morning it is not something that Andy Burnham is looking at.
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