SIR KEIR STARMER must deliver urgent change for unpaid carers and a “creaking social care system” now that he is prime minister, the Carers Trust urged today.

Noting that the Labour election campaign had focused on change, the charity said that for Britain’s seven million unpaid carers, “change can’t come soon enough.”

About 1.5 million people provide care for more than 50 hours a week and more than a quarter of carers have been forced into poverty, it said.