Newbury MP Laura Farris backs Boris NI hike
BORIS Johnson has confirmed a rise in National Insurance for health and social care, saying there should be no more ‘dither and delay’.
The Prime Minister has confirmed his Government will impose a manifesto-busting £12bn-a-year package of tax increases from next April to tackle NHS Covid backlogs and overhaul social care.
He says the 1.25 per cent rise will be used for the NHS and to help fund social care.
He spent more than an hour-and-a-half taking questions from MPs in the Commons.
Newbury MP Laura Farris told the BBC: "He was right to say the pledge not to raise National Insurance was in the manifesto. But the Covid spend was not in the manifesto.
"When a disaster strikes, the British people have a reasonable expectation that the Government will protect them. The Government did protect them to the tune of £400bn.
"Therefore a number of other major spending schemes had to be looked at in a different light otherwise we would be saddling future generations with the cost of our borrowing."
"Therefore a number of other major spending schemes had to be looked at in a different light otherwise we would be saddling future generations with the cost of our borrowing."
