Letters: Unfair care costs will turn the red wall blue

Take care

Sir: Your editorial (‘Counting the costs’, 8 January) makes valid points regarding the funding of social care. The good people of the north in the red-wall seats will be rightly appalled. A couple who have worked hard and made their own way onto the property ladder must wonder what they have voted for. They sit on a property worth £100,000 to £200,000. If they need a care home, they will see their children’s legacy disappear into the hole of care costs while knowing that they are subsidising the same care costs of millionaires. This is deeply unfair and, I daresay, anti-Conservative. There should be no care costs on a modest legacy of, say, less than £250,000. This will ensure people are not disadvantaged in the ‘levelling up’ agenda and feel they are treated fairly and the care costs are more fairly distributed. Otherwise I believe those loaned red-wall seats will return red.