Sentences with phrase «national insurance rise»

The veteran newsman also took the prime minister to task over her u-turns on National Insurance rises and an early election.

David Cameron responded by criticising the prime minister's planned national insurance rise next year.

The two parties have a difference stance on Labour's national insurance rise from 2011 with the Conservative manifesto proposing scrapping the policy and the Liberal Democrats arguing that it will be impossible to avoid the former government's tax rises while the deficit is so huge.

Philip Hammond today announced that he was cancelling National Insurance rises for the self - employed.

Those relatively few workers who still have a good final salary pension will be hit by a large National Insurance rise, equivalent to about one and a half pence on the basic rate of tax.

Not only is he critical of the Government's claim that cutting waste this year will endanger the recovery or threaten frontline services, but his view that the country must get wealth creation right echoes Conservative concerns at Labour's planned national insurance rise.

Nor is it a surprise he opposes Labour's national insurance rise.

The Conservatives have promised to pay for the scrapping of the National Insurance rise by cutting waste in the public sector.

He claimed that the Lib Dems had already changed their position to support Conservative plans to partially reverse next year's National Insurance rise.

Tories and Liberal Democrats also had priorities in common which could provide «a strong basis for a strong government», said Mr Cameron, citing the scrapping of ID cards, enhanced funding of disadvantaged schoolchildren with a «pupil premium», support for low carbon industries and avoiding the National Insurance rise.

Mr Darling said the National Insurance rise would not threaten jobs.

The Chancellor dismissed the criticism from business leaders that the National Insurance rise was «a tax on jobs.»

If support for a tax rise is conditional upon people not understanding it very well it does pose the question of what would happen if they had it explained to them, or even «misexplained» to them (remember how a National Insurance rise was packaged up as a «Labour jobs tax» by the Tories before the last election?).

As the media fixates on the National Insurance rise, far bigger scandals are unfolding all around us

So there have to be tough decisions including some spending cuts and fair tax rises like the 50p top rate of tax for the richest and the national insurance rise we proposed last year.

She did not rule out the possibility of a national insurance rise over the parliament but denied MPs had been consulted about any specific changes to national insurance contributions to fund the NHS.

And while we can guess that the national insurance rise that was abandoned after the Budget will be brought back to put an extra # 2bn into the care system, we don't actually know that either.

Study finds self - employed single parent of two on # 10,000 faces losing thousands from national insurance rise and universal credit cuts

But this will have to be paid for, and so the Conservative plans to scrap «Labour's tax on jobs», the national insurance rise, will now be watered down.

Earlier, Cameron had realised that voters did not like his honesty on cutting the deficit, so he changed that too, promising to cancel next year's National Insurance rise and find the money from La - La Land, although he called it «efficiency savings».

However, the injection comes in the context of further significant cuts faced by schools as a result of unfunded cost pressures like salary, pension and national insurance rises and other unexpected costs like the apprenticeship levy.