Could Labour scrap the triple lock to fund social care service?

Labour could reportedly scrap the state pension triple lock to help fund a new free social care service if they win another term in power.Ministers are expected to look at plans to divert money spent on the triple lock to build a new national care service, The Times reports.The new system would provide social care for the elderly and operate under NHS principles of being universal and free at the point of use, and would be at the heart of Labour’s next general election manifesto.Prime mini