Well, that didn’t take long. Two days ago, a leaked report revealed that the government was considering using a national insurance tax hike to pay for the NHS backlog and social care. Now it looks as though the money could be diverted elsewhere.
The anticipated increase of at least one per cent on national insurance would transfer an additional £6bn from taxpayers to the Treasury.
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