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• National insurance hike to hit NHS and care staff with £900m tax bill

  23-09-2021 16:14
  
  Exclusive: Tax rise will inflict ‘terrible’ financial toll on health and social care workers, analysis findsBoris Johnson’s national insurance hike to fund health and social care will hit NHS and care workers with a £900m tax bill, the Guardian can reveal.The prime minister announced this month that contributions are to increase by 1.25 percentage points to tackle the NHS backlog and pay for social care changes. Continue reading...
  
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• If Labour wants to win, it needs to promise the change Conservatives won’t deliver | Ellie Mae O'Hagan

  23-09-2021 10:00
  
  Tories splash just enough cash to preserve power; Labour could actually empower othersAfter the government announced a tax rise to pay for social care last week, the political scientist Matthew Goodwin called it “a new era in British politics”. The already phenomenally popular Tories were stealing from the opposition playbook. “This is what leaning left on the economy and leaning right on culture looks like,” he said.And he wasn’t the only one. When Boris Johnson sa
  
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