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Get ready to start paying the cost of Covid

8 January 2022

1:40 AM

8 January 2022

1:40 AM

Forget the desirability (or lack thereof) of tax hikes: can Britain survive them? That’s the economic question that kicked off the new year in cabinet this week when Jacob Rees-Mogg was reported to have encouraged the Prime Minister and his colleagues to roll back plans to bring in the new National Insurance levy this April.

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