Stephen Daisley Stephen Daisley

Liz Kendall is right – we don’t value social care enough

Liz Kendall (photo: Getty)

Sometimes it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. In politics, it’s more often than not the latter that matters most. Liz Kendall, star of my somewhat unsuccessful 2015 campaign to ‘Make Liz Kendall Labour Leader and Queen of Everything’, has been pilloried online for suggesting care workers would be ‘better off stacking shelves at Morrisons’ given their pay and conditions. Her remarks were pounced upon as proof of snobbery towards supermarket staff, a largely unacknowledged army of key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

As ever with outrage rampages, the truth is a bit more prosaic. Here is Kendall’s question in full:

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