'Benefit Street culture is a feature of modern Britain' - Braverman

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Everyone earning more than £12,571 a year has money taken from their salary in the form of income tax, which the Government uses to fund public services.
53% : Speaking at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London, Ben van Beurden said: 'One way or another there needs to be government intervention that somehow results in protecting the poorest.
52% : Hours earlier, he had shown the Prime Minister a draft of his speech for the following day, in which he intended to vow - in the teeth of furious opposition - to 'stay the course' on the Government's controversial plans to axe the 45p top rate of income tax.
52% : This does not include other taxes such as National Insurance.
52% : Someone earning £25,000 currently pays £2,486 in income tax - under the new rules this would drop to £2,361.70, a saving of just over £124.
50% : AdvertisementSpeaking in Birmingham today Ms Braverman said she backed the original decision to scrap the 45p top rate of income tax for Britons earning more than £150,000, adding: 'I'm disappointed about the subsequent reversal - but I accept their reasons and it doesn't affect my support for the prime minister.'
49% :45p tax rate explained: Q&A as Kwasi Kwarteng scraps plan to remove 45% rate of income tax on those earning above £150,000 from April next year
49% : The 45p rate of tax applies to people earning more than £150,000 a year.
48% : He also announced the reversal of the 1.25% in National Insurance that had come into effect in April this year under previous Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
47% : She said she backed the original decision to scrap the 45p top rate of income tax for Britons earning more than £150,000, adding: 'I'm disappointed about the subsequent reversal but, I accept their reasons and it doesn't affect my support for the prime minister.'
46% : The drop in the Basic rate of tax from 20% to 19%, which has not been scrapped, will affect millions of households.
45% : The Chancellor announced that from April 2023 the Basic rate of income tax would be slashed from 20% to 19%, instead of April 2024 as was previously mooted.
44% :Asked if it was one of the taxes her Government would look at, Ms Truss told Times Radio: 'We've been clear about our tax plans, keeping corporation tax low, reversing the National Insurance increase, which is in fact a manifesto commitment not to raise National Insurance and we have no more plans on that front.'
44% : What is income tax?
42% : What is the 45p rate of tax and who pays it?
40% : By Matthew Lodge for MailOnlineChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced he is scrapping plans to remove the 45% rate of income tax on those earning more than £150,000.
32% : Mr Gove said the plan to cut taxes for people earning more than £150,000 a year was a 'display of the wrong values'.
32% : 'Unless he also U-turns on some of his other, much larger tax announcements, he will have no option but to consider cuts to public spending: to social security, investment projects or public services.'
25% : In his mini-Budget just nine days earlier, he had frozen the country's energy bills at a cost of perhaps £65billion, promised to reverse his predecessor Rishi Sunak's hated hike to national insurance and even to cut a penny off the basic rate of income tax.

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