'Unfair and lacking imagination': Boris Johnson's planned National Insurance hike blasted by MP'
Preston MP Sir Mark Hendrick today hit back at the Government announcement of a planned National Insurance rise to pay for social and some health care, branding it "unfair" and lacking in imagination. By Fiona Finch Sir Mark, a Labour and Co-operative MP, spoke out after Prime Minister Boris Johnson abandoned his pledge not to raise the main rates of tax, setting out plans to overhaul adult social care and deal with the Covid backlog in the NHS. In a Commons statement the Pri