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Jenrick urges Burnham to rule out tax rises to fund social care
Reform UK's Robert Jenrick has urged PM Andy Burnham to rule out future tax rises to fund his plans to fix adult social care in England.
Burnham has said he wants to look at existing budgets before considering tax rises but he has not ruled them out, adding that "difficult decisions" lay ahead with funding options to be set out in a review being published next year.
Jenrick said any reforms should be paid for by cutting foreign aid and benefit payments for migrants, urging the prime minister to rule out what he called a universal "death tax".
Burnham was health secretary in a Gordon Brown government which proposed a compulsory levy which people could defer until after they had died.
The idea was labelled a "death tax" by the Conservative Party.
Burnham has not mentioned introducing an adult social care levy in this form.
He told reporters on Wednesday that proposals he put forward in 2009 were intended to stop people having to sell their home in order to pay for their care.
The new prime minister has said fixing the social care system was a top priority and he has speeded up a review of the system by Baroness Casey, which will now be published next summer.
He said the review should consider how to pay for a national care service, adding that there needed to be a system in place that becomes "highly integrated" with the NHS.
He said he would immediately start to examine, with Chancellor John Healey, how to boost the pay and training of care workers, something he said would be "fully funded" from existing budgets.