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Many workers will be £1,000 worse off under Tory tax rises, says Labour

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Published date13 September 2021
Publication titleLiverpool Echo: Web Edition Articles (England)
The party said its own analysis had found the national insurance hike announced by the Conservatives to fund NHS and social care – combined with planned cuts to Universal Credit and plans to freeze the income tax personal allowance – would take £1,130 away from a hospitality worker.

And Labour said many other workers, including those that steered the country through the pandemic, would be impacted with those including social care workers, nurses, teaching assistants and supermarket staff losing more than £1,100 a year.

A band 5 nurse would lose £1,159 next year, Labour’s analysis found, while a social care worker would lose £1,108, a supermarket worker £1,040 and a teaching assistant £1,040.

Boris Johnson has insisted that raising national insurance is “the right, the reasonable and the fair approach”.

But Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Prime Minister of “putting the very wealthiest ahead of working people who have to pick up the bill”.

Sir Keir will visit Rose’s Cafe in London on Monday with deputy leader Angela Rayner to meet hospitality and retail workers.

He said: “The Conservatives’ plans to impose unfair taxes are an attack on working people and an attack on the key worker heroes who have got our country through the pandemic.

“The Government’s announcement on social care will not fix the crisis in social care, will not clear the backlog in our NHS and will not protect homeowners from having to sell their homes to pay for care.

“As usual with this Prime Minister, it is working people who are going to pay for the cost of his failure.

“Two-and-a-half-million working families will face a double whammy of a national insurance tax rise and a cut to Universal Credit.

“This is the same old Tories – putting the very wealthiest ahead of working people who have to pick up the bill.”

Ms Rayner added: “Conservative ministers are taking £1,000 out of the pockets of my old workmates working on the frontline of our social care sector.

“Our key worker heroes need...

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