British Secretary of Defense Michael Fallon has denied media reports about deepening divisions in Prime Minister Theresa May’s team ahead of the June 8 general election.
“You know this is Westminster tittle-tattle,” Fallon told ITV news, in response to a report by the Sunday Times.
The report claimed that the Tory campaign’s joint chiefs of staff, Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, were at loggerheads over an unpopular tax policy that May was forced to retract after facing widespread backlash.
Under the so-called “dementia tax” policy, which was introduced in the Tory manifesto last Thursday, people would pay for taking care of older people at their own home unless they have assets of less than £100,000 including the value of their house.
The pledge created widespread concerns among many families, who said that they could lose their homes to pay their social care costs later in life.
May made a reversal…