Good morning. Final evening Boris Johnson gained the vote on how the cap on social care can be carried out. However regardless of at present having a working majority of 77, his majority was minimize to 26. There have been 19 Tories who voted towards the federal government. Simply as considerably, for the third time in lower than three weeks, dozens of Conservatives successfully went on strike, refusing to vote with the federal government. There have been 68 Tories who didn’t vote within the division final evening; final week 74 Tories didn’t vote within the divison on Labour’s plan to reform the code of conduct for MPs, and earlier within the month 97 of them didn’t vote within the division on the movement to shelve the Owen Paterson report.
In accordance with my colleague Jessica Elgot, solely 13 Tories have been paired with Labour final evening, that means a lot of the no-shows have been most likely deliberate abstentions, reasonably than authorised absences.
The row over the cap on social care prices is unlikely to go away. The well being and social care invoice has to go to the Home of Lords, and friends are very prone to search to amend this side of the invoice. This morning Woman Finlay of Llandaff, a crossbench peer, instructed the As we speak programme:
I feel when this involves the Home of Lords, we might want to scrutinise this very, very rigorously … It might be that we’ll say to the Commons, ‘are you able to assume once more?’, it could be that we provide you with constructive amendments to enhance what’s on the desk in the intervening time as a result of, clearly, there’s a number of disquiet.
And, on the identical programme, Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative chair of the Commons well being committee, mentioned that he thought finally the federal government must again down on the mechanism used to calculate the cap on social care prices (which has been criticised as a result of it provides poorer individuals much less safety than was anticipated). Hunt mentioned it was “unlikely” that the federal government would order a U-turn quickly. However finally there can be a rethink, he claimed. He instructed the programme:
Definitely, in time, individuals will efficiently make the case for the way in which the cap is calculated to be extra beneficiant ….
We can be serving to much less individuals shield the belongings of their homes than individuals like me have been hoping for, than the truth is the laws I took by parliament in 2014 [provided for].
I feel it makes it a more durable package deal to promote to the entire nation, which is why I hope very a lot that is one thing that authorities will take a look at once more earlier than the subsequent election.
Right here is the agenda for the day.
Morning: Boris Johnson chairs cupboard.
10.30am: Johnson and Keir Starmer are among the many attendees at a requiem mass for Sir David Amess at Westminster Cathedral.
11.30am: Sajid Javid, the well being secretary, takes questions within the Commons.
11.30am: Downing Avenue holds a foyer briefing.
After 1.30pm: MPs resume their debate on the well being and care invoice.
2.20pm: Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, makes an announcement on Covid within the Scottish parliament.
2.30pm: Nadine Dorries, the tradition secretary, provides proof to the Commons tradition committee, first on the work of her division usually after which, from 4pm, on the net security invoice.
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