With this measure, which violates his Conservative Party’s campaign promises, the prime minister hopes to raise 12 billion pounds for three years.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson won an important vote in the House of Commons. After a lively and heated debate, lawmakers still backed his controversial plan to increase national security contributions, which will fund social welfare reform.
The balance of the vote is 319 votes in favor of the prime minister’s plans and 248 against. This means that from April 2022 the national insurance contribution will increase by 1.25%, according to income.
Johnson hopes that the measure, which, among other things, violates his Conservative Party’s campaign promises, will raise £ 12 billion over three years and thus fund national health care, which is experiencing serious problems with the Covid-19 pandemic. to implement reform in the field of social care.
According to Johnson, this is the only way to solve the crisis with millions on the waiting list for treatment.
There has been strong opposition from opposition and Tory MPs that raising taxes will again be the biggest burden on the younger and lower paid and that this is not the best way to solve the crisis, but ultimately the Conservatives, who have a majority of 80 seats in the House of Commons, with few exceptions, backed the prime minister.
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