Badenoch Refuses to Back Reversal of Budget National Insurance Hike – Guido Fawkes

Badenoch Refuses to Back Reversal of Budget National Insurance Hike

During a strange PMQs in which Starmer asked as many questions of Badenoch the PM demanded to know if LOTO would reverse the Budget’s NICs rise: “Is she going to reverse the NICs increase – if not what’s the point? If so, what other taxes is she raising to fill the hole?” A simple trap to bat away…

Kemi refused to answer that one specifically and just said Tories “will vote to exempt hospices, pharmacies, and care providers from the NI rise.” That’s a Tory effort to force Labour to block a proposal to exempt those businesses from the hike. Back in November, she refused to say if she would reverse the tax because she didn’t want to comment on “every bit of micropolicy.” This is a big piece of policy…

Seeing as it was a Tory chancellor who hiked National Insurance before Reeves it might be a good idea for the “new management” to specify that they are not in favour of a large tax hikes on economic activity. Might be more popular than vaguely shifting the Net Zero timeline…