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Gordon Brown’s policy of free home care for the elderly will suffer its most serious setback yet this morning when the Liberal Democrats become the first party to oppose the plan.
Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, will announce that unpaid carers who look after relatives for more than 50 hours a week would instead get a week’s holiday cover out of money allocated by the Prime Minister for free care. In a speech to the King’s Fund think-tank, Mr Clegg will become the most high-profile critic of Mr Brown’s pledge to give 400,000 people with “critical needsâ€
Gordon Brown’s policy of free home care for the elderly will suffer its most serious setback yet this morning when the Liberal Democrats become the first party to oppose the plan.
Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, will announce that unpaid carers who look after relatives for more than 50 hours a week would instead get a week’s holiday cover out of money allocated by the Prime Minister for free care. In a speech to the King’s Fund think-tank, Mr Clegg will become the most high-profile critic of Mr Brown’s pledge to give 400,000 people with “critical needsâ€