Boris Johnson defends ‘necessary and fair’ National Insurance rise
2 years, 9 months ago

Boris Johnson defends ‘necessary and fair’ National Insurance rise

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The Prime Minister has defended the decision to hike up national insurance for millions of workers, arguing that the manifesto-breaking rise is "necessary, fair and responsible". From April 2023 onwards, the NI rate will decrease back to the 2021-22 level, with a new 1.25 per cent health and social care levy legally introduced. The UK Government predicts that the tax rise will raise £39 billion over the next three years to help reduce the Covid-induced NHS backlog and later reform adult social care for the long-term. "We know this won't be a quick fix, and we know that we can't fix waiting lists without fixing social care.

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Are Labour’s new NHS proposals a cure or yet another sticking plaster?
2 days, 14 hours ago

Are Labour’s new NHS proposals a cure or yet another sticking plaster?

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With the health and social care secretary Wes Streeting having played the role of media warm-up act over the weekend, Keir Starmer has announced some radical moves to reduce NHS waiting times and generally improve the service – and thus fulfil Labour’s manifesto promise that “patients should expect to wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral for consultant-led treatment …

Difficult decisions for employers after national insurance hike, says minister
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Difficult decisions for employers after national insurance hike, says minister

The Independent  

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Patients could find it even harder to see a GP after Labour's hike in National Insurance, health leaders warn
2 months ago

Patients could find it even harder to see a GP after Labour's hike in National Insurance, health leaders warn

Daily Mail  

Patients could find it harder to see their GP because of the rise in national insurance - with 5million a month already unable to do so, health leaders warn. Dentists, pharmacists, social care providers and charities have also told of their fears that Rachel Reeves' rise from 13.8 per cent to 15 per cent could force them to close The …

Is the backlash against Reeves’s national insurance hike justified?
2 months, 1 week ago

Is the backlash against Reeves’s national insurance hike justified?

The Independent  

It should probably come as no surprise that what the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, once described as “a tax on jobs” has turned out to be. In particular, the “secondary threshold” – the level at which employers become liable to pay national insurance on each employee’s salary – will come down from £9,100 per year to £5,000 per year. The health …

Care providers will be pushed 'to the brink' by National Insurance hike, ministers warn
2 months, 1 week ago

Care providers will be pushed 'to the brink' by National Insurance hike, ministers warn

Daily Mail  

Care providers will be pushed 'to the brink' by the failure to exempt them from a national insurance rise, ministers have been warned. Chancellor Rachel Reeves was last night accused by leading industry figures of 'forgetting about care' in Labour's quest to revive the NHS Ms Reeves hiked NI contributions by 1.2p and reduced the salary threshold in order to …

NHS needs ‘significant’ uplift or faces cuts in areas Labour hopes to improve
2 months, 2 weeks ago

NHS needs ‘significant’ uplift or faces cuts in areas Labour hopes to improve

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The NHS is heading for a “significant overspend” this year, …

No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer
3 months, 3 weeks ago

No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer

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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Asked what he would say to patients who are ill now about how he …

Budget 2024: Jeremy Hunt unveils £10bn national insurance cut – but average worker still £400 worse off
10 months ago

Budget 2024: Jeremy Hunt unveils £10bn national insurance cut – but average worker still £400 worse off

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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The chancellor announced a further two percentage point slash to national insurance among a series …

Long-term work sickness absence ‘a serious fiscal threat’ to UK
1 year, 3 months ago

Long-term work sickness absence ‘a serious fiscal threat’ to UK

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Long-term sickness – with people …

Labour has a long-term plan for NHS but we don’t, warns Tory former minister
1 year, 11 months ago

Labour has a long-term plan for NHS but we don’t, warns Tory former minister

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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He joined other Conservative MPs airing their concerns about the NHS, as Health Secretary …

Social care promise in doubt as Rishi Sunak ‘to delay cap on costs until 2025’
2 years, 1 month ago

Social care promise in doubt as Rishi Sunak ‘to delay cap on costs until 2025’

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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Conservative promise to “fix” Britain’s broken social care system by …

Reversal of national insurance hike comes into effect
2 years, 2 months ago

Reversal of national insurance hike comes into effect

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The rise was introduced by Boris Johnson’s government, with …

Keep national insurance rise to boost social care wages, say Tory MPs
2 years, 5 months ago

Keep national insurance rise to boost social care wages, say Tory MPs

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Boris Johnson warns 'there is a limit' to No 10 support in energy bills crisis
2 years, 9 months ago

Boris Johnson warns 'there is a limit' to No 10 support in energy bills crisis

The Telegraph  

Boris Johnson has warned "there is a limit" to how much the Government can do to tackle rising energy bills as he defended today's National Insurance hike. The Prime Minister insisted the Government is already helping struggling families but he said "we have got to be frank" about how much taxpayers' money can be spent on alleviating the pressure caused …

Boris Johnson defends tax hike as national insurance rise comes into force
2 years, 9 months ago

Boris Johnson defends tax hike as national insurance rise comes into force

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The levy is the necessary, fair and responsible next step, providing our health and …

Britain ‘caught in a trap’ of high taxes and weak growth
2 years, 11 months ago

Britain ‘caught in a trap’ of high taxes and weak growth

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Britain is stuck in a “trap” of high tax and low growth as the cost-of-living crisis intensifies, the boss of the country's leading business group warns today. The intervention from CBI chief Tony Danker comes as regulator Ofgem unleashes a 50pc rise in energy prices for families and the Bank of England prepares to hike interest rates for the second …

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak jointly commit to National Insurance hike
2 years, 11 months ago

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak jointly commit to National Insurance hike

The Telegraph  

The Prime Minister and the Chancellor have vowed to push ahead with a £12 billion National Insurance hike amid pressure from Tory MPs to ditch the controversial move. In a joint intervention, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak described the levy - which will fund sweeping social care reforms and aim to clear the NHS patient backlog caused - as “the …

Government’s social care reform plan is ‘insufficient’
3 years, 1 month ago

Government’s social care reform plan is ‘insufficient’

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Boris Johnson’s controversial care plans face resistance in Lords
3 years, 1 month ago

Boris Johnson’s controversial care plans face resistance in Lords

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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Boris Johnson’s controversial social care bill will “undoubtedly” be amended in …

Boris Johnson sees off Tory rebellion over controversial cap on social care costs
3 years, 1 month ago

Boris Johnson sees off Tory rebellion over controversial cap on social care costs

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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Boris Johnson saw his House of Commons majority slashed in a …

DAN HODGES: What happens the next time Boris Johnson turns to voters and begs: Please trust me?
3 years, 3 months ago

DAN HODGES: What happens the next time Boris Johnson turns to voters and begs: Please trust me?

Daily Mail  

For the past few months, Ministers and Tory MPs have become increasingly concerned about Boris Johnson and his erratic political agenda. As one Minister told me: ‘It’s all a bit Red Ed.’ Nick Clegg only got caught telling one massive lie to the electorate. But in the course of unleashing his £12 billion social care tax raid, Boris has told …

Extra tax to fix social care must not line care home bosses' pockets
3 years, 4 months ago

Extra tax to fix social care must not line care home bosses' pockets

Daily Mail  

Forget talk of national insurance, or a health and social care levy, Boris Johnson’s plan to tackle the social care crisis involves an income tax. Rather than raise the rate of income tax, the manifesto-busting move initially add 1.25 per cent to national insurance, and then swap that a year later for a health and social care levy. Britons have …

Boris Johnson's social care plan: why tax increases may not fix NHS crisis
3 years, 4 months ago

Boris Johnson's social care plan: why tax increases may not fix NHS crisis

The Telegraph  

Anita Charlesworth, director of research at the Health Foundation, warns this “falls well short of what is needed to stabilise the current system and deliver the comprehensive reform that is so desperately needed”. Only after the health service has had a chance to recover might more cash be diverted to social care, if a brave minister decides the NHS can …

National insurance rise sets UK on path to record tax level
3 years, 4 months ago

National insurance rise sets UK on path to record tax level

CNN  

London CNN Business — UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to hike payroll taxes to raise billions in funding for health and social care will raise Britain’s tax burden to its highest ever level, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. “Both spending and tax will ratchet upwards over the next few years,” the IFS said in research published after …

Politics latest news: MPs vote through Boris Johnson's National Insurance tax rise
3 years, 4 months ago

Politics latest news: MPs vote through Boris Johnson's National Insurance tax rise

The Telegraph  

Boris Johnson staved off discontent in the Tory party and rumours of a rebellion that never came to pass, as the health and social care levy was comfortably waved through Parliament by 319 votes to 248. In their 2019 manifesto, the Conservatives promised to raise National Insurance, yet Mr Johnson said that a pandemic "was in no one's manifesto" and …

Boris Johnson gambles on HUGE social care revolution funded by £12bn tax raid
3 years, 4 months ago

Boris Johnson gambles on HUGE social care revolution funded by £12bn tax raid

Daily Mail  

Business leaders have slammed Boris Johnson's pledge-breaking £12billion national insurance raid as a 'kick in the teeth' for Covid-hit firms - as the Prime Minister admitted he cannot rule out even more hikes. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said yesterday's 1.25 per cent rise in national insurance for 25million people, together with other tax rises already announced, would take the …

Funding social care is 'permanent new role for Government', says Rishi Sunak
3 years, 4 months ago

Funding social care is 'permanent new role for Government', says Rishi Sunak

The Telegraph  

The move to funding social care through a new levy is a "permanent new role for the Government", Rishi Sunak has said. Speaking at a press conference alongside Boris Johnson, the Chancellor said the health and social care would help "properly fund the NHS" as it deals with the "significant" backlog caused by the pandemic, as well as creating "an …

Prime Minister is urged to 'bite the bullet' and finally deal with long-awaited overhaul of system
3 years, 4 months ago

Prime Minister is urged to 'bite the bullet' and finally deal with long-awaited overhaul of system

Daily Mail  

Boris Johnson was urged last night to ‘bite the bullet’ and finally announce his long-awaited social care reforms amid rising hopes they could be finalised in days. The Prime Minister and Chancellor Rishi Sunak are thought to be close to a deal to cap social care costs, the last details of which insiders believe could be ironed out this week. …

Boris Johnson's ambitious social care plans shelved until autumn
3 years, 5 months ago

Boris Johnson's ambitious social care plans shelved until autumn

The Telegraph  

The Government’s long-awaited social care plans have been delayed until the autumn after Boris Johnson and the key cabinet ministers behind the package were forced to self-isolate due to Covid-19. but it’s 23 years since the report of the Royal Commission on Social Care, and six years since the then Conservative government pulled the plug on a set of reforms …

Boris Johnson ‘backs new tax to fund social care plan’
3 years, 5 months ago

Boris Johnson ‘backs new tax to fund social care plan’

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Boris Johnson is backing plans for a new tax to fund …

Make pensioners pay national insurance to help fund social care, says Sir Andrew Dilnot
3 years, 5 months ago

Make pensioners pay national insurance to help fund social care, says Sir Andrew Dilnot

The Telegraph  

Pensioners should be made to pay national insurance contributions to help fund social care reforms, the author of Boris Johnson’s favoured plans has claimed. Sir Andrew Dilnot said it was “entirely reasonable” for people over retirement age to pay the contributions in order to help meet the estimated £10 billion a year cost of overhauling Britain’s social care system. However, …

Boris Johnson’s social care plan could finally be revealed next week
3 years, 5 months ago

Boris Johnson’s social care plan could finally be revealed next week

The Telegraph  

Boris Johnson’s plan to overhaul social care could be unveiled as early as next week, as government sources say an impasse over a cap on lifetime care costs may be broken within days. Pressure is mounting on Mr Johnson to spell out how he will grasp the growing care crisis ahead of next Saturday, which marks the two-year anniversary of …

Queen's Speech: Boris Johnson aims to 'level up' jobs and investment in former Labour heartlands
3 years, 7 months ago

Queen's Speech: Boris Johnson aims to 'level up' jobs and investment in former Labour heartlands

Daily Mail  

Boris Johnson left No10 for Parliament today as he plans to heap pressure on stricken Keir Starmer with a Queen's Speech aiming to 'level up' jobs and investment in former Labour heartlands. However, the government is already facing criticism over the lack of action on social care provision - something Mr Johnson has promised to fix. Boris Johnson has vowed …

One year after Boris Johnson promised to fix social care, we're still waiting
4 years, 5 months ago

One year after Boris Johnson promised to fix social care, we're still waiting

The Independent  

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Boris Johnson drops NHS fee for migrant healthcare workers in humiliating U-turn 24 hours after defending policy
4 years, 7 months ago

Boris Johnson drops NHS fee for migrant healthcare workers in humiliating U-turn 24 hours after defending policy

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Boris Johnson told to take personal charge to reverse shocking fall in life expectancy for England’s poorest since Tory austerity
4 years, 10 months ago

Boris Johnson told to take personal charge to reverse shocking fall in life expectancy for England’s poorest since Tory austerity

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Boris vows to honour his bold manifesto pledges - but is it realistic?
5 years ago

Boris vows to honour his bold manifesto pledges - but is it realistic?

Daily Mail  

Boris Johnson today vowed to use his thumping 80-seat majority to 'transform this country' with the raft of eye-catching policies he pledged during the election campaign. In a speech on the steps of No10, Boris Johnson said he was determined to 'repay the trust' of the wave of former Labour supporters who handed him a huge new mandate He said …

General Election 2019: Boris Johnson says Tories will raise National Insurance threshold to £12,000 - latest news
5 years, 1 month ago

General Election 2019: Boris Johnson says Tories will raise National Insurance threshold to £12,000 - latest news

The Telegraph  

Boris Johnson has promised to raise the National Insurance threshold to £12,000. During a campaign visit to an engineering company in Teesside, the Prime Minister was challenged by one woman whether his promise of a low tax economy meant "low tax for people like you or low tax for people like us". "We are going to be cutting national insurance …

Theresa May's flagship NHS plan set to fail because of dithering on social care, NHS bosses say
5 years, 6 months ago

Theresa May's flagship NHS plan set to fail because of dithering on social care, NHS bosses say

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Theresa May’s flagship healthcare initiative, a £20.6bn increase in NHS budgets …

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