Today it’s two years exactly since Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “I am announcing on the steps of Downing Street that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared to give every older person the dignity and security they deserve.”

Two years on, we are no further forward.

The only thing we know is that, whatever it is, the Government is contemplating a rise in national insurance to pay for it – hitting low earners and the young hardest, just when they are struggling the most.

More than one and a half million people nationally are missing out on the care they need. Vulnerable people are stranded in hospital, unable to leave because the follow-up care isn’t there. Councils are struggling to cope with inadequate budgets to meet the needs of their residents.

Where is the clear plan the Government said two years ago that it had prepared? Or is it yet another mythical ‘oven ready deal’?