LONDON: British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will on Wednesday pledge to overhaul the adult social care system, offering to work with other parties to better fund a service that can cost families hundreds of thousands of pounds. Burnham became prime minister last week, and has enjoyed a bounce in the governing Labour Party’s poll ratings after announcing steps to reduce the cost of living.

New prime minister has also warned that ‘the NHS will collapse’ unless he fixes social care

PM says that without rapid action the NHS could effectively collapse, in first full interview since entering No 10