By the time voters had followed all these twists and turns there was only one question left – if you are giving half of the NICs rise back before you’ve even introduced it, and you are proposing giving the other half back in two years, what was the point of doing this at all? It’s certainly not to fund the NHS. The answer of course is to raise money now to fund an income tax cut as part of the Tory election campaign.
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