If you thought the UK National Insurance rise was going to the NHS: that was a Tory lie
Rishi Sunak: His – and Boris Johnson’s – claim that a massive hike in National Insurance, announced last year, would go entirely to fund the National Health Service and social care… was not true. Were you fooled?
Boris Johnson’s claim that his – and Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s – National Insurance rise would sent £12bn to the NHS and social care was a lie, economic analysts have confirmed.
They pointed out that measures in the Chancellor’s Spring Statement have chopped that amount in half – but added that it was never intended to go to the NHS in the first place.
Here are BBC Business Editor Simon Jack and Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies to explain:
Were you fooled by the Tory liars?
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