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• Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak double down on national insurance rise

  29-01-2022 23:33
  
  PM and chancellor make firm commitment to increase after reports of ‘wobbling’ on policy
  Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have doubled down on a planned tax hike to boost health funding, after it was reported that the prime minister was “wobbling” on the policy.The PM is under pressure from some Conservative MPs to scrap or at least delay the national insurance increase to win back support as he awaits the findings of Whitehall and police inquiries into claims of lockdown-bu
  
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• ‘If she has a problem, she comes to me’: the retired care worker helping to fight local loneliness

  29-01-2022 12:00
  
  Margaret Shiplee sealed her commitment to her Suffolk community by joining a befriending scheme. So we treated her with some flowersWhen Margaret Shiplee retired from her job as a homecare worker for people with special needs 15 years ago, she was at a loss. “I thought, oh God – I have to do something now,” she says. “If I stopped doing anything I’d be bored out of my brain. I’m not very good at relaxing.”Shiplee, who is 75 and lives in Worlingham, east
  
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