Ukraine crisis puts Sunak under new pressure to axe national insurance rise

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : "Every penny of that £39bn will go on crucial objectives - including 9 million more checks, scans and operations, and 50,000 more nurses, as well as boosting social care."
53% : The government's analysis says that in the 2022-23 tax year, someone earning the median basic rate taxpayer's income of £24,100 will pay an additional £180 a year in national insurance, while someone earning the median higher rate taxpayer's income of £67,100 will pay an additional £715.
52% : Both Tory and Labour MPs believe Sunak can still be persuaded to ditch the 1.25 percentage point rise - announced last September to fund the NHS and social care - and want him to use the potentially devastating effects of events in Ukraine on prices as justification for what they say is an urgently needed U-turn.
38% : Tory MPs and business groups urge chancellor to scrap increase intended to fund NHS and social care amid fears of stagflationChancellor Rishi Sunak is under renewed pressure from MPs and business groups to rethink plans to increase national insurance next month, as fears grow that Russia's invasion of Ukraine will dramatically worsen the cost of living crisis and plunge the economy into "stagflation".

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