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• ‘Chaos’ in No 10 as Johnson finalises social care funding plan

  03-09-2021 20:13
  
  Growing backlash from cabinet ministers and MPs after leaks about plan for national insurance riseBoris Johnson is expected to make a final decision over the weekend about whether to press ahead with his controversial social care funding plan, in the face of a growing backlash from cabinet ministers and backbench MPs.One government source described “chaos” in a jittery Downing Street on Friday, after leaks about plans for a national insurance increase, including the contested claim t
  
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• The Guardian view on social care funding: fairness is the key | Editorial

  03-09-2021 18:40
  
  A plan to split the proceeds of a national insurance rise between the NHS and social care could worsen intergenerational injusticeAn announcement on social care funding is imminent, with a national insurance rise the probable outcome. But what ought to be unambiguously good news, after years of delay, is not. Far from being the best solution to a problem regarded as intractable only because governments do not want to pay for it, the proposal to raise up to £10bn a year from extra NI contri
  
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• Tory plans to raise national insurance are regressive. There’s a better way | Jonathan Meadway

  03-09-2021 17:26
  
  Labour should seize the opportunity to make the case for alternative ways of funding social careThe Conservative government is reported to be considering an increase of up to 1.25p in the pound in national insurance contributions from 26 million people in work to help cover the costs of patching up Britain’s crumbling social care system. The party hopes that the win of “solving” the social care crisis will outweigh the political betrayal of breaking a clear manifesto promise to
  
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• Raising National Insurance to fund social care is fraught with political risk

  03-09-2021 16:16
  
  Analysis: both employers and employees pay NI but the burden weighs heaviest again on younger workersAfter months of havering, the government is poised to make two big announcements in the coming weeks. Both break manifesto pledges, both are fraught with political danger.First, perhaps as early as next week, comes the long-awaited plan for social care, expected to be funded by an increase in national insurance contributions. That breaks the pledge made in 2019 not to raise income tax, VAT or NI.
  
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• Increase taxes not national insurance to fund social care, says Jeremy Hunt

  03-09-2021 10:12
  
  Former health secretary says tax rise preferable to NI increase that would ‘disproportionately target’ youngTaxpayers should pay more to fund social care, according to the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who suggested this should be through a tax rise rather than a national insurance rise that “disproportionately targets” the young.The government is understood to be looking at increasing national insurance rates by at least 1% to fund its plans to fix the long-term f
  
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• Taxes should fund social care not national insurance, says Jeremy Hunt

  03-09-2021 09:55
  
  Former health secretary says tax rise is preferable to NI increase which would ‘disproportionately target’ youngTaxpayers should pay more to fund social care, according to the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who suggested this should be through a tax rise rather than a national insurance rise which “disproportionately targets” the young.The government is understood to be looking at increasing national insurance rates by at least 1% to fund its plans to fix the long-t
  
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• Epilepsy brain implant does not transform patients’ sense of self or personality but offers them new insights into illness, study shows

  03-09-2021 01:16
  A next-generation brain implant currently in clinical use for treating refractory epilepsy -- to help prevent symptoms including seizures -- does not induce changes to patients' personalities or self-perceptions, a new study of patient experiences shows.
  
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