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According to the Sunday Times, who reported the ministers are “uncomfortable”, five cabinet members are opposed to the plans.
One anonymous minister said to the outlet: “I don’t think it is right, particularly after the pandemic, to be asking 20 and 30-year-olds to pay more, especially when we also want them to get on to the housing ladder.”
Another minister added: “Raising NI in the way proposed would increase intergenerational unfairness and would hit the working young given that people do not pay NI beyond state pension age.
“I don’t see why we can’t pay for social care out of the existing budget by making savings.”
A third said: “I don’t think the public are going to buy the idea that by raising NI, we are not breaching our manifesto pledge not to breach taxes.
“That’s simply semantics.”
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