Image by lukemontague via Flickr One of the surprises in Gordon Brown’s speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday (to me, anyway!) was his proposal that from the middle of 2010 (election result nonewithstanding.. ) he would oversee a change to the provision of free care for people over 65 (and only those over 65 ) [...]

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Posted 30 Sep 2009 6:34 AM by Fighting Monsters | Report Abuse

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