Three former chancellors and a former Tory PM have condemned plans that could reportedly mean a rise of up to 2% in National Insurance payments - which critics say will benefit pensioner homeowners at the expense of young people in work.
Mr Heappey told Sky News:"There is still a majority of 80 which gives the government the ability to deal with these very hard issues and make no mistake, reforming social care will be a very hard issue to deal with."But the government and parliament and the nation need to deal with this, this is something that has been ducked by many governments.
But former minister Jake Berry, leader of the Northern Research Group of Tory MPs, warned against a policy that appeared to benefit elderly voters in southern seats. Mr Berry said:"It doesn't really seem to be reasonable that people who are going to work in my own constituency in east Lancashire, probably on lower wages than many other areas of the country, will pay tax to support people to keep hold of their houses in other parts of the country where house prices may be much higher."
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