Full list of MPs who voted for the national insurance hike
Conservative MPs overwhelmingly backed the move despite a party promise before the 2019 election that they would not raise taxes.
Conservative MPs overwhelmingly backed the move despite a party promise before the 2019 election that they would not raise taxes.
“Sums up this government! Rob the poor to benefit the rich!" one Twitter user said.
"£350 million a week since January last year is tens of billions of pounds, why isn't that bailing out the NHS?"
"That could leave little if any of the tax rises announced yesterday available for social care.”
Boris Johnson's manifesto-busting tax rise will today go before a divided House of Commons for a crunch vote.
"Government research itself found that those with disabilities, the unemployed, people without qualifications, people who have never voted before, ethnic minorities, are all less likely to hold any form of ID."
Social care leaders have warned the plan will not be enough to end the crisis, according to The Independent and Daily Mirror.
Looks like the penny has dropped for young Grimes.
A YouGov poll found voters are split in their views on the national insurance rise - but how will MPs respond?
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