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If you go on the northern power website there is no communication. is it coming back on in an hour, two hours by tomorrow, next week? impossible to try to plan ahead, i have got to work tomorrow, is nigh on impossible. borisjohnson and the chancellor, rishi sunak, have confirmed that the rise in national insurance will go ahead in april. in a joint article in the sunday times, the two men said the increase was the right thing to do to help tackle the nhs backlog and fund social care. but labour says the plan needs to be rethought, as people struggle with the cost of living. our political correspondent ione wells has more on this. only this morning robert halfon said he is urging the government to look at other ways they can fund the need to tackle nhs backlogs and fix social care as well. he has suggested looking ....
Ione wells has more on this. only this morning robert halfon said he is urging the government to look at other ways they can fund the need to tackle nhs backlogs and fix social care as well. he has suggested looking at a windfall tax on big businesses and oil companies. meanwhile, labour has also kind of hit back at this commitment in the papers today with the shadow levelling up secretary saying this is not the right time to be squeezing purses more, saying it was ironic that today we had michael gove talking about levelling up the country at a time when they were increasing taxes. just a word on the sue gray report which we seem to have been waiting forfor weeks. what is the latest? as we have learned from the last week, any certainty around timing is not something i would want to commit to, ....
In order to deal with the problems of the nhs, the backlogs, you also have to fix social care. we are taking the tough decisions that the country wants to see. we are putting another £36 billion in. the plan for social care was the first attempt by a government in decades to tackle the issue of social care funding, but it was criticised as being unfair on people in less well off areas. just the latest on the government reshuffle which is under way. the education secretary gavin williamson has lost his job. in mid september, it was all change at the cabinet table. are you expecting a promotion? the big winner was liz truss, now the foreign secretary. dominic raab was moved tojustice, with the consolation prize of being made deputy prime minister. are you happy? have you been demoted? as politicians headed off to their conferences, drivers found themselves going, well, nowhere. fuel supply issues led ....
I ve been to funerals from cornwall to dunblane. poole i ve watched good men go into the earth. taking with them a part of me and a part of all of us. mr speaker, this is what defeat looks like. it s when you no longer have the choice as to how to help. this doesn t need to be defeat. but at the moment, it damn well feels like it. applause as autumn approached, life was feeling a bit more normal. some of the special financial schemes set up for the pandemic, such as furlough and the £20 uplift universal credit, came to an end. and to clear the backlog in the nhs, the government broke a promise in its manifesto and put up national insurance by 1.25%. some of the money would also go to fund social care. in order to deal with the problems of the nhs, the backlogs, you also have to fix social care. ....
Go into the earth. taking with them a part of me and a part of all of us. mr speaker, this is what defeat looks like. it s when you no longer have the choice as to how to help. this doesn t need to be defeat. but at the moment, it damn well feels like it. applause as autumn approached, life was feeling a bit more normal. some of the special financial schemes set up for the pandemic, such as furlough and the £20 uplift universal credit, came to an end. to clear the backlog in the nhs, the government broke a promise in its manifesto and put up national insurance by 1.25%. some of the money would also go to fund social care. in order to deal with the problems of the nhs, the backlogs, you also have to fix social care. we are taking the tough decisions that the country wants to see. we are putting another £36 billion in. the plan for social care was the first attempt by a government in decades to tackle ....