is the thought of a tax on share dividend, too, which has done a lot to allay concerns, so borisjohnson will be pretty happy going into the first prime minister�*s questions but there has been a real drive from ministers to justify this tax rise with the health secretary sajid javid doing the rounds this morning. i was told that if things carry on as they were — business as usual — that we would be looking at a waiting list of about 13 million in three years' time. now, my choice is, at that point, i can say, "well, you know, we made a promise in the manifesto and we don't want to break it, let's doggedly stick to it and let that waiting list go to 13 million. or we canjust confront the problem, be honest with the british people, take the difficult decision and say, "yes, we have broken a manifesto promise, but we also didn't know there was going to be a global pandemic and we're going to tackle that waiting list because we have also promised to you that the nhs