This is bbc news. i m ben brown. the headlines at 8pm borisjohnson announces one of the largest tax rises in decades, saying it will pay for the biggest catch up programme in nhs history and help fund long awaited reforms to social care. it would be wrong for me to say that we can pay for this recovery without taking the difficult, but responsible decisions about how we finance it. the proposals have received a broad welcome from the social care sector, but labour say the wrong people are being asked to pay the bill. a tax rise, mr speaker, that means a landlord renting out dozens of properties won t pay a penny more, but the tenants working in full time jobs would. under the new plan for england,
This is bbc news. i m ben brown. the headlines at 8pm borisjohnson announces one of the largest tax rises in decades, saying it will pay for the biggest catch up programme in nhs history and help fund long awaited reforms to social care. it would be wrong for me to say that we can pay for this recovery without taking the difficult, but responsible decisions about how we finance it. the proposals have received a broad welcome from the social care sector, but labour say the wrong people are being asked to pay the bill. a tax rise, mr speaker, that means a landlord renting out dozens of properties won t pay a penny more, but the tenants