This region and to its people. Out ofjail rolf harris appears in court on trial for historical Indecent Assault. And the sun smiles on chelsea as we get a Sneak Preview of the worlds most famous flower show. And coming up on the sport on bbc news. Not for sale. Arsenals Majority Shareholder says hes committed to the club after rejecting a £1 billion takeover. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The conservatives have performed a rapid climbdown over their central manifesto pledge on social care. Theresa may, in a Campaign Speech in wrexham, said their plans now include a consultation on a cap, or in her words an absolute limit, on the money people will need to pay. Its unclear what that cap will be. The original commitment said that elderly people needing care at home, as well as those in residential care, would have to meet their costs, which could be deducted from their estate after their death, with £100,000 protected for people to hand on to their families. Heres o
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And the conservatives cant be trusted. We have not rewritten the manifesto, the principles upon which it is written remain the same, we need to ensure that we have long term sustainability and social care, we need to be able to ensure that we can fund social care for the future, we are doing the honest thing in putting a proposal to the british people. How is it honest to reject a cap in your manifesto and four days later say, we are going to have a cap, what is honest about that . what we set out in the manifesto was a series of principles, to say to people, first of all, this is a big issue, we need to address it and we are being honest that we must fix it, and that is what i want to do, i am not going to play politics with it, very my head in the sand, that is whatJeremy Corbyn does with it. No, you arejust going to change or mind on it, apparently. This woman is already doing another u turn she decided it wasnt parliament that decided it wasnt parliament that decided her view. John