The Government risks breaching its manifesto promises if it cuts a flagship farming fund at the Budget, critics have claimed. The Chancellor has been warned that slashing a post-Brexit scheme ...

Extending a freeze on income tax thresholds in the budget would not break Labour's election manifesto, government sources have suggested. The current freeze in thresholds, brought in by the ...

She said Labour had been “completely clear” in their election manifesto that they would not put up NI. “There wasn’t a paragraph that said ‘only for employees’,” she said.

Hiking employer national insurance (NI) "doesn't look consistent" with Labour's manifesto and could lead to job losses in the long term, the head of an influential thinktank said. Paul Johnson ...

Keir Starmer has all-but confirmed that a key tax rate is set to go up in the Budget - sparking fresh accusations that would breach an election manifesto pledge. The prime minister refused to deny ...

The Prime Minister on Tuesday declined to rule out increasing employers’ National Insurance contributions but insisted the Government would keep its manifesto promises. Sir Keir told the BBC ...

Rachel Reeves will be guilty of a “straightforward breach” of Labour’s election manifesto if she goes ahead with raising employers’ National Insurance (NI), a leading economic think tank ...

The phrase “National Insurance” appears once in Labour’s 2024 election manifesto. It said: “We will ensure taxes on working people are kept as low as possible. Labour will not increase taxes on ...

Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, said raising employer national insurance contributions would be a ‘straightforward breach’ of Labour’s manifesto (PA Archive) Currently employees pay the ...

Your support makes all the difference. Labour has been accused of plans to break a manifesto commitment after repeatedly refusing to rule out an increase to employers’ national insurance ...

Unless (Labour are) to argue that employers’ national insurance is not the same thing as national insurance, which is an absurdity to argue, then they’re going to be breaching their manifesto ...