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.
A YouGov poll found voters are split in their views on the national insurance rise - but how will MPs respond?
“People are entitled to an answer on a very simple question: Why do Conservatives now believe they have to put taxes up?”
“Read my lips we will not be raising taxes on income, on VAT or National Insurance.”
"Whatever you think of him, this is a difficult problem and he does intend to keep his promise to fix it."
"Johnson is so bad at this I'm almost at the pity stage. Not actually at it. But almost," Sam Freedman said.
“Why aren't we funding social care out of the £350 million per week that was on the side of your bus?," one Twitter user asked.
"A tax that people stop paying at 65. Wonder why Boris Johnson is doing that." Majority of over 65's vote Tory.
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