Tory posters claiming Labour is planning a £20,000 "death tax" to fund a national carers service have been condemned as "grotesque" and a lie by Dame Joan Bakewell, the former BBC presenter and the government's "voice of older people". She accused the Conservatives of "an insult to older people", and said the collapse of talks designed to reach a cross-party consensus on funding future social care will increase despair about politics.
Tory 'death tax' poster condemned - the Guardian
