Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster leader, called the planned National Insurance rise a “regressive Tory poll tax” during Prime Minister’s Questions today in the Commons. The planned 1.25 percentage point rise to National Insurance in order to raise money for the NHS and adult social care dominated the debate. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said:…
Eye-watering bills, a declining workforce and an ageing population, social care in England has been at breaking point in England for a number of years. Coupled with a covid-inflicted NHS, the government has decided to act. A new £36 billion investment in the health and care system has been announced, funded by a new health…
The government has broken a manifesto pledge not to increase national insurance as MPs voted to raise NI by 1.25 percentage points yesterday evening. Labour said that this was a “tax on jobs”, with Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor of the exchequer, saying: “The country is now littered by Tory broken promises torn from the election…
