BREAKING: Boris breaks election pledge with 1.25% tax rise to help fix social care crisis
has confirmed a tax rise for millions of people to fund reforms to social care, tearing up a pledge he made in his 2019 manifesto.He has pressed ahead with the plans despite widespread backlash from senior party members.manifesto two years ago that National Insurance would not increase.
But he said: ‘A global pandemic was in no one’s manifesto.. the people of this country understand that in their bones.’ He said the cost of the pandemic meant it would be irresponsible to fund reforms by borrowing or other means.supports HTML5 video ‘We not only have to pay for the operations and treatments that people decided not to have during the pandemic, we need to pay good wages for the 50,000 nurses who have enabled that treatment and who can help us tackle waiting lists that could otherwise expand to 13 million over the next few years.’
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