• IT only took four days and May’s Conservatives are attempting a screeching U-turn on their flagship “dementia tax” policy, a policy that levied 100 per cent tax (over £100k) on anyone with illnesses that needed lots of care late in life.

However it turns out not to be a U-turn as the “dementia tax” plans are still in the manifesto. Theresa May says nothing has changed. She says that they will consult, but I think that we can guess what that means – a whitewash process where the nasty party shows their true colours.

The voting public are now beginning to run out of fingers to count how many U-turns or “consultations” we have seen in the last few weeks: education funding cuts; National Insurance hike on the self-employed; the “dementia tax”; air pollution strategy forced out into the open by the courts; abandoning an inquiry into excessive press behaviour; abandoning child refugees, now taking 2,860 fewer than promised.

We have an established picture emerging, that under pressure, Theresa May caves in.

STEPHEN CROSHER
Liberal Democrat Candidate for Holborn & St Pancras