内容摘要：Dr Asah-Asante said Mahama's experience as former president would stand him in good stead to navigate Ghana through choppy waters.

Dr Asah-Asante said Mahama's experience as former president would stand him in good stead to navigate Ghana through choppy waters.

The threshold for getting some council support to pay for costs, before exceeding the cap, would also be made more generous, with people with assets up to £100,000 able to qualify, rather than £23,250 currently.The care system is facing increasing demand from an ageing population and because people are living longer with more complex conditions.

It has been widely viewed as being in crisis for years – underfunded and struggling to recruit enough staff.Caroline Abrahams, Director of the charity Age UK, says the care system has “gone from merely creaking to a state of near collapse in some places".She describes the scrapping of the care cap as “really bad news for all those older people who were hoping against hope for some relief from their sky high care bills,” leaving them “on their own” in the short term at least.

The Conservative government had already delayed the plans by two years and got rid of the National Insurance rise which was meant to fund them.Ms Reeves estimated that scrapping the reform would save £1bn by the end of next year.

Asked if the cap would be reintroduced at a later date, Ms Reeves said her colleague Health Secretary Wes Streeting would be working with the sector to improve social care.

The public spending think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, warned that ditching the cap could see people paying "extremely high social care costs" running into hundreds of thousands of pounds.(formerly Twitter) she was "firmly rooted in the reality of the sheer awfulness of what is to come".

Conservative group leader Robert Alden said: "This is a truly tragic day for Birmingham residents. This finance report lays clear the impact of 11 years of Labour rule on our great city."He added the authority had been "brought to her knees".

Despite the 7 January deadline, the council leader has promised to consult people in the city about its plans.Mr Cotton told BBC Radio WM: "We'll be bringing forward details of all those proposals in the coming weeks, and we're inviting people across the city to comment on that as part of the budget consultation process."