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Rishi Sunak says raising employers’ national insurance would be ‘complete betrayal’ by Labour
By convention, the leader of the opposition always replies to budget statements. With other big financial statements from the chancellor, it’s the shadow chancellor who replies. Today will be Rishi Sunak’s final PMQs, but his last Commons speech as Tory leader will be his response to Reeves.
Speaking ahead of the budget, Sunak said putting up employers’ national insurance would be a “complete betrayal”. As the Mail reports, he said:
Rachel Reeves promised that her plans were fully funded, and she promised that she wouldn’t change the debt target because that would be “fiddling the figures”.
We already know that those promises are totally worthless because she is going to change her fiscal rules so she can go on a borrowing spree.
If she was to…