Two-thirds 'support raising National Insurance' to pay for social care reform

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "In particular, they can be persuaded to support tax rises that will be used to pay for improvements to public services, as Gordon Brown found in 2002 and as we may find again with proposals to raise National Insurance to pay for social care reform or to clear the NHS backlog."
55% : Ministers floated the idea of increasing National Insurance to pay for social care earlier this year, but details were not put forward before MPs left Westminster for the summer recess.
52% : Ipsos Mori's research also found that support for increased public spending had decreased from 66 per cent at the end of 2018 and 56 per cent just before the 2019 election to 49 per cent today.
42% : He added: "Even past Conservative supporters are in favour of these, although young people are slightly less supportive of the rise than older groups (unlike taxes to pay for net zero)."
24% : The Conservatives also pledged in their manifesto for the 2019 general election not to raise taxes to pay for public spending, potentially making an increase in National Insurance politically difficult.

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