Burnham to seek cross-party consensus over urgent reforms to social care

Prime minister invites Badenoch and Davey - but not Farage - to discuss how to fix decades-old funding crisis

Andy Burnham has promised problem-solving, not point-scoring" before a speech on social care in which he will set out his strategy for resolving one of the most intractable problems in British politics.

The prime minister has invited Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, and Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, to discuss how to enact urgent reform on social care, as he attempts to find common ground across party lines. Davey confirmed he would attend via video call while the Conservatives said they would send the shadow health secretary, Stuart Andrew, in Badenoch's place as she was having pre-planned minor surgery.