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Middle-aged workers should fork out hundreds of pounds more in tax to fund OAP care, Theresa May’s former deputy demanded.

Disgraced ex-First Secretary of State Damian Green was sacked after he was found to have lied about police finding porn found on his Commons computer in an unrelated investigation and amid claims of inappropriate behaviour towards a woman journalist.

But he returned to the political frontline today to controversially call for grafters aged 40 and over to fund the growing number of people who will live to 100.

He believes it will allow the very elderly who need full-time care to live - and die - in dignity.

He hopes to launch a campaign to win support for the latest attempt to tackle the social care time bomb facing Britain.

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While his plans are still being drawn up, the levy would reportedly cost a worker on an average salary of £27,600 an extra £364 a year.

Someone earning £52,000 a year would pay an extra £884.

Mr Green said: “More and more people are going to live to 100 and we must plan for it.

“The next generation or two will not have the same amount of money invested in homes so we should add maybe two per cent in a compulsory National Insurance levy cutting in at around 40 years old - as they do in Japan - so your social care is guaranteed and you won’t have to sell off your house.”

Theresa May’s bungled bid to force the elderly give up more of the value of their home to pay for care was branded a “ dementia tax ” and was widely blamed for contributing to her general election humiliation.

Mr Green calculated his plan would pump an extra £20billion a year into the creaking social care system.

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He told the Mail on Sunday: “Yes, it is a tough message.

“But if for the sake of a couple of per cent on NI you can relieve people of the worry of what may happen at the end of their lives, it will be worth it.

“And it is fair - everyone pays for the NHS and no one minds that some people need it more than others. The same is true of my idea.”

But campaigning Labour MP John Mann, who sits on the Commons Treasury Select Committee said: “It’s a total non-starter.

“This is Damian Green trying to resurrect himself with some idiosyncratic views. The man needs to have a good rest.”

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A Labour spokesman said: “If Damian Green wants to find more money to help people in later life then he should begin by supporting Labour’s calls to end the billions of pounds in Tory tax giveaways to big corporations and the super rich planned for over this Parliament.”