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He said the government would "finally grasp the nettle on social care reform" but that it "would take time" to devise a model fit for the future.

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting is promising "to finally grasp the nettle on social care reform", with an independent commission due to begin work in April.

"Stinging nettles are a come again plant. Cow parsley, sorrel too. Strangely you can pick a lot of salads now," he says.

But to honour those commitments the chancellor will need to “grasp the nettle” and come up with £16bn more on top of £9bn tax rises set out in the Labour manifesto, the IFS said.

“I also pinch myself or put Deep Heat on so it burns. In trail races I deliberately run through stinging nettles.”