national insurance rise to be either cancelled or postponed for a year. there is a growing number of conservative mps are saying exactly that, robert halfon, a senior tory backbencher told the bbc this morning he wants the government to go back to the drawing board on this because it will have the biggest impact on low income families. is the government going to budge? it s not totally clear, to be honest, borisjohnson said yesterday, the sort of answer that raises eyebrows in westminster, where he said we have to fund the nhs and find money for that and social care but didn t categorically say the national insurance rise would go ahead in april. the word from downing street is there are no plans to change it but i think the pressure on boris johnson for a rethink is only going to get more considerable in the next few days and weeks. few days and weeks. nick, for the moment, thank few days and weeks. nick, for the moment, thank you few days and weeks. nick, for the moment, thank y
to get all the facts into the open and it is not completely clear this morning if that will still happen. and meanwhile there is this wavering on the planned rise in national insurance contributions which is due to come in in april to help fund health and social but what is going on with that? the political context of the sue gray report is really important here because basically borisjohnson is on the ropes and he knows that his fate will be decided by conservative mps. he is seeing a lot of them regularly to try to win them over and a lot of them are telling him that they want the national insurance rise to be either cancelled or postponed for a year. there is a growing number of conservative mps who are saying exactly that, robert halfon, a senior tory backbencher, told the bbc this morning he wants the government to go back to the drawing board on this because it will have the biggest impact on low income families. is the government going to budge?
article today i think states quite clearly he is going ahead with it, is this the chancellor as well. he has not decided to go ahead, i am sorry, he has decided to go ahead with this tax rise in april which i think sense a clear message to some tory backbenchers calling on him to stop it he is pretty confident he can carry on with that politically. what political reaction has there been to that decision? there s been a bit of a mixed reaction. we offer had the senior tory backbencher robert halfon saying he doesn t think this is the right time to do it when energy bills and inflation are putting pressure is on the cost of living. in terms of the opposition, the shadow levelling up secretary lisa nandy has also been telling the bbc she doesn t think this is the right time to go ahead with the tax rise and a labour government would not do it.
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