PENSIONERS will no longer have to sell their homes to pay for social care under a Tory government, says Boris Johnson.
The PM insisted he would end the injustice as he announced a 5billion injection to ease the funding crisis.
He said he would seek a cross-party agreement on how to pay for the soaring costs of caring for the elderly and disabled.
Mr Johnson also said politicians must agree a solution that stands the test of time in the same way the principles of the NHS were agreed 70 years ago, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Theresa Mays dementia tax bid to tackle social care led to her failure to retain a majority in 2017.
Mr Johnson is determined not to make the same mistake, and his manifesto, expected this weekend, will not contain any specific funding models, instead promising to build the same level of consensus on social care as on the NHS.
Downing Street said the starting point of cross-party talks would be that peoples homes should not be at risk.
Matt Hancock, the Health and Social Care Secretary, said: I feel deeply just how important the family home is to people.
People who have worked hard in life deserve to be able to pass something on to their children.
So I am determined to end the injustice of people having to sell their home to pay for care.
