Care vs Scare – Can Burnham get social care past the “Death Tax” die-hards?

Andy Burnham is promising to spend “whatever political capital” he has to fix the crumbling social care system after decades of political failure. As the right-wing press dusts off its “Death Tax” headlines, can he actually do it?

Plus… He leads Restore Britain, an openly extreme right party committed to driving non-white people out of the country, and he’s becoming a persistent headache for his former boss Nigel Farage. But who exactly is Rupert Lowe? The panel sizes up the man behind the common-sense cosplay. And in the Extra Bit: the new Euro banknote designs are live, but what would Britain have put forward if we’d ever signed up for the single currency?

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• Jason watched Slice of Life: The American Dream In Former Pizza Huts, which, he says, was “f***ing brilliant” 

• Zoë went to watch The Odyssey and particularly enjoyed “evil and excellent” Robert Pattinson

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