Calls for the care crisis to become a top priority for the UK Government have been renewed with Dame Barbara Windsor’s open letter to the new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.

In one of his first speeches as Prime Minister last month, Mr Johnson promised to fix the crisis in social care “once and for all” to provide “every older person the dignity and security they deserve”.

Yesterday (6 August 2019) Dame Barbara Windsor, who has Alzheimer’s, has launched an open letter with her husband asking the Prime Minister to “sort out” the social care crisis, urging others to sign the letter before it makes its way t...