Mr Streeting refused to commit to the inclusion of a detailed funding plan for social care in the Labour general election manifesto.
Asked whether the party would set out how it would fund its ambitions, he replied: “You are tempting me into announcing Labour’s manifesto on the Today programme this morning. I am going to resist that temptation.
“We have got to set out a different kind of politics around social care for the long term… I would hope that the next Labour government won’t just provide an immediate answer to the immediate crisis in social care but will set out a long-term direction for investment and reform that can command consensus across the divide and can last for generations, as we did on the NHS in 1948.”
