Just a handful of rebels defy Boris to vote against £12bn tax raid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Under the plans announced by the Prime Minister the NHS will get the bulk of the £36billion raised in the first three years, with £5.4billion for social care in England.
60% : The health service will receive the vast majority of the £36billion raised by yesterday's National Insurance hike over the next three years, with social care receiving a £5.3billion slice.
59% : Health Secretary Sajid Javid insisted that 'more and more' of the money raised by the levy would go towards social care in future years.
59% : The majority of the cash is going towards the NHS, with social care receiving £5.3billion over the next three years.
57% : But that balance is expected to tip towards social care in subsequent years as the £86,000 cap on costs introduced from October 2023 starts to require funding.
57% : 'That could leave little if any of the tax rises announced yesterday available for social care.'
57% : The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the new funding will see the NHS deliver an extra nine million checks, scans, and operations for patients across the country in a bid to try and drive down waiting times.
56% : Mr Johnson spent almost an hour addressing a private meeting of Tory MPs at Westminster ahead of the vote on the health and social care levy.
56% : The Health Secretary was challenged to give a clear guarantee that money would shift towards social care in a Times Radio interview.
55% : The PM's dramatic move to bail out the NHS and overhaul social care with an eye-watering hike in national insurance sailed through the Commons by 319 to 248.
53% : Mr Javid said: 'It's clear that more and more after three years will shift towards social care because, not least, by that time the money over the next three years that will go to the NHS will be able to deal with so much of the challenge they are facing around the waiting list.
52% : The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned that little might be left available for social care even once funding from the new levy is expected to shift away from the NHS.
52% : In return for the big tax rise - more than £1,000 a year for some higher earners - Mr Johnson has pledged that no individual will have to pay more than £86,000 for social care after October 2023.
51% : Conservative MP Richard Drax told the Commons he is concerned by the 'direction of travel' the Government has taken with its proposal to raise national insurance.
48% : PM's £12bn tax hike 'will be swallowed by the NHS'The £12billion a year extra for health and social care as a result of Boris Johnson's tax hike risks being swallowed up by the NHS, an economic think tank warned.
47% : In the Commons debate, the leader of the Northern Research Group of Tory MPs, Jake Berry, warned that by listing the levy on people's payslips as a health and social care charge, it would 'never go down, it can only go up'.
46% : The NHS will get £10billion a year of the revenue raised for the next three years, with an £86,000 cap on social care costs coming in from October 2023.
42% : He added it was 'quite acceptable' to raise tax to pay for the NHS but added he was 'very unhappy with the procedure' in the Commons as MPs were 'doing it without the detail'.
41% : Boris Johnson had clashed brutally with Sir Keir Starmer over the tax rises to bail out the NHS and social care.
38% : Boris Johnson has fended off a Tory rebellion and secured MPs' backing for his controversial £12 billion National Insurance tax raid to pay for health and social care despite seeing his Commons majority cut
37% : The South Dorset MP said: 'Taxes are the highest for, as we have heard, 60 to 70 years, this, under a Conservative Government.
28% : Tory peer Lord Lilley told LBC: 'It was a mistake to introduce a permanent tax rise to deal with a temporary problem, the backlog, and to try and deal with some problem of potentially catastrophic costs of social care by taxation, rather than bringing in an insurance option for people if they wanted to avoid that.

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