On 18 May 2017, the Conservative manifesto set out a new way to pay for social care. Opponents called it a “dementia tax.” On 22 May, four days later, Theresa May said that a planned Green Paper would include proposals for an “absolute limit” on what people would pay.
Pressed by reporters, she answered: “Nothing has changed, nothing has changed.” She later said it had been a mistake to insist that nothing had changed.