long—term cross party agreement on this and the government doesn't have to, it has a majority, but because it's such a long—term issue, i would just say this, any mechanism for funding has been to be fair across income and fair across the generations. and it's also got to be about more than the cap alone, vital though the cap is. those are the tests that the prime minister has to meet. at the moment i have got no idea where they are on any of those. interesting. someone senior in the government said to me about ten days ago, i said, "what are you going to do about social care?" and they said, "well no reform, no extra cash." i thought, well, ooh that's interesting, so i think they are particularly the treasury... that sounds like a treasury line, i was going to sex _ well now, i would never reveal my sources! i would not. well, i wouldn't say anything obviously. but i think the government is trying to look at all of the bits of the machine, all the nuts and bolts and all the spanners, rather than just saying, "here's loads more cash" for all the problems that liz was talking about. and we have seen in the pandemic as well how fragmented the system is and what a problem that was.