The former Lib Dem MP and care minister on the need for a resilience taskforce to reduce the psychological fallout of the pandemic
The former care minister Sir Norman Lamb is uncharacteristically irritated by the government’s neglect of social care and mental health during the Covid pandemic and the years leading up to it.
“This current crisis simply strengthens the case for confronting it [the social care funding gap]. But the combination of failing to confront it and the state of public finances makes me very worried … then so many more people across our country will be failed by the system,” he warns.
