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By James Price Means-testing winter fuel payments show Starmer is willing to peek into the Too Difficult Box, but he must resist to urge to slam it shut again, writes James Price Nearly ten years ago, former Labour home secretary Charles Clarke edited a book called The Too Difficult Box. This metaphorical container harboured all of the big structural, thorny problems that were rendered impossible to fix by the modern political and media climate. There have been stabs at serious reform since then: Theresa May’s valiant efforts to fix social care that became the ‘dementia tax’. Dominic Cummings’…

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