In an attempt to unite Britain’s opposition party, Labour’s National Care Service says it will provide older people with free help for daily tasks.

An ageing population is one of Britain’s biggest economic challenges and political parties have struggled to tackle the issue – sound familiar?

The party’s promise is expected to cost six billion pounds ($7.5B) in 2020/21, rising to eight billion pounds in 2030/31.

During the 2017 election campaign, then Prime Minister Theresa May was forced to back down after her plan to make elderly people pay for the costs of their own care was dubbed a “dementia tax.”

A reminder that Australia is not alone in looking for a fix to aged care provisions — at least we don’t have the worry of whether our national health system will cope if there’s no deal on Brexit.