If promising a social care cap hasn’t closed the issue down, it might yet be necessary to specify the upper limit

If it keeps coming up on the doorstep, the same might be needed for the level of means-testing Winter Fuel Payments.

John Bald: The Conservatives are right to offer flexibility with new grammar schools

Bright children from working families can close the attainment gap more easily in grammar schools than in comprehensives.

Iain Duncan Smith: It is better to face the social care crisis head-on than to dump the costs onto our children

The Prime Minister has shown determination and boldness – and the alternative is enormous tax increases under Corbyn.

WATCH: May on her social care plan. She says the policy hasn’t been changed – merely “clarified”

Neil: “This must be the first time in modern history that a party has broken a manifesto pledge before the election.”

Could the Lib Dems use May’s u-turn to rally their failing campaign?

Tim Farron has led his party into an electoral cul-de-sac on the EU. He needs a change of course to save his MPs – and his leadership.

Nicky Morgan: If you see him, tell Jeremy – we don’t want to go back to the 1970s

My local experience as a constituency MP has been a reminder of how nationalisation failed and privatisation works.

The Treasury may be weakened, but its interests still count – as May’s social care scheme suggests

The department may not be the force that it was, but protecting its interests is still a powerful imperative within government.

Courage means sacrifices. May pays a price for her social care plan in today’s opinion polls.

None the less, a fall in the Conservative poll lead is not unhelpful to Downing Street and CCHQ at this stage of the campaign.

John Wall: Don’t heat – insulate

Rather than pay a Winter Fuel Allowance it would be better to help pensioners use less energy.

Ryan Bourne: May has chosen to occupy the centre, rather than try to shift it. This bodes badly for Britain, Brexit – and the economy.

The basic principles of limited government, economic and civil liberties, freedom and equality under the law are almost entirely absent from her programme.

Manifesto small print 4) Taking back control of our fishing

The Common Fisheries Policy has been a disaster.

Manifesto small print 3) Fairer school funding – but no school to face a budget cut

A gradual change will make it less contentious.

Manifesto small print 2) Tackling electoral fraud

This pledge follows alarming evidence that democracy was undermined in Tower Hamlets.

Manifesto small print 1) Terraced streets not tower blocks for new homes

A victory for Create Streets which has been making the case that beauty matters and that high density does not need to mean high rise.

We asked for Grown-Up Government. Now we’ve got it.

May’s manifesto is real politics – that’s to say, a serious attempt to prepare Britain for the post-Brexit challenges of the future.