Boris Johnson has maintained that his social care reforms will "benefit people across the country", despite claims that people in the north will be harder hit by a change in the cost cap.
"There has never been any protection like this across the whole country … we're saying to everybody, we're going to make sure that we look after you in your old age," he said.
Report by Buseld.
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