After initially indicating that elderly recipients of social care would have to pay their costs until the net value of their assets – including their home – fell to £100,000, Mrs May changed tack and said there would also be a cap on the total amount any individual would have to pay towards their care.

“We will come forward with a consultation paper and that consultation will include an absolute limit on the amount people have to pay for their care costs,” she said earlier this week.

“We are proposing the right funding model for social care. We will make sure nobody has to sell their home to pay for social care. We will make sure there is an absolute limit on what people need to pay.”

However, she did not detail the level at which the cap would be set.

The research, which was undertaken from May 18-24, shows that SMEs also object to a series of other policies, but in relatively low numbers, indicating that there are a range of unpopular ideas in the manifesto, without a single solution to address the complaints.