We need to finally fix social care but who will have to pay? This is Money Podcast

Can Andy Burnham succeed where others have failed on social care? Plus, interest rates held, haggling on the High St and the end of the beach hut boom.

Andy Burnham gave a major speech on Wednesday on his plans for a national care service. He sought cross-party consensus on the issue by speaking to the Tories and Lib Dems. But not Reform UK or the Greens. On Thursday, Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick held a press conference claiming the prime minister wanted a ‘death tax’.