Chancellor Rishi Sunak says 'borrowing now would mean higher taxes later'

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak validates the government's reasoning for raising National Insurance by 1.25% to fund health and social care reforms in England.

[westay]

just tax the big companies like amazon

[georgef]

The The NHS isn't underfunded and doesn't need a penny more when it can afford to pay 'Heads of Equality' £60k per year and
'Diversity and Inclusion Managers' £45k a year...

[gavinhartley]

He puts up taxes as thousands of migrants manage to cross the channel and we pay France tens of millions to stop it.

[paulquinn]

How much did the bankers have too pay back when we bailed them out

[happyweekend]

We pay taxes but NHS workers still get taxed heavily. band 2 makes £19k a year but only comes out with 17k. Even NHS apprentices only get paid £4.30hour can't do nights or weekends to cover the shortage of HCAs

[freshprince]

No politicians should feel safe walking the streets.

Its time the public put the fear to theses dictators like they have been doing for the last 2 years.

[skipmole]

How about recovering the cost of Covid from the Chinese, Rishi?

[sunilg]

4th reason we need to give the people coming from France free food and housing

[mishatomskovich]

Why are front line workers also paying a 1, 25% NI tax. Charge those who were furloughed.. Never voting TORY again as they are the TAX party

[embracepain]

Higher taxes later. They are announcing higher taxes. First thing is term limits for MPs second is government should be massively shrunken

[stephenroche]

This from the richest man in Parliament the thick aspects will still abide with blind faith and conviction.

[clonie]

Why is an Indian in power in Britain I thought colonialism was abolished

[tajs]

There would be no need to announce reforms like this if the conservatives decided to operate social under a cooperative business model but then that goes against their ideology so it would likely be ignored.

[Ihatepotatosski]

HOW CAN THERE BE A BACKLOG WHEN NOBODY CAN ACCESS THE NHS ANYMORE

[josephstalin]

Why we need rise tax. Because the system is f""""ed

[PsytanicA]

'borrowing now would mean higher taxes later' > Karl Marx

[ydnallah]

So the sick lame and lazy get let off the hook again and younger workers punished

[Ravi-ynco]

"Prepare for the NEXT PANDEMIC" please no

[fsxlfcfandom]

Did your donors not make huge amounts of money while the rest of us were suffering for 16 straight months? Couldn't that huge amount of money have gone to the nhs?

[Asiforever]

This poor Indian fellow is being made scapegoat for PM's plan.