Andy Burnham has pledged to “put everything I’ve got” into fixing adult social care, as he extended an invite to party leaders to work with him to tackle the problem “head-on”. Mrs Badenoch has already written to Mr Burnham to challenge him to rule out tax rises or increased borrowing to pay for social care reform. Mr Burnham has frequently cited his personal experience of the care system, as his father lives with Alzheimer’s in a care home. “Fixing adult social care is about far more than money. It’s only by facing up to this problem together that we can fix social care once and for all.”