The UK Government recently announced a £12 billion-a-year tax rise against working people to help fund the NHS and social care sector.

National Insurance contributions will increase by 1.25 percentage points in April, costing £455 a year to the average worker.

British households face the worst cost of living crisis for decades, including declining real wages and an energy crisis eating into household incomes. Inflation has soared, hitting an annual 5.4% for December — the highest it’s been since March 1992.

Ofgem, the regulator for the energy sector, recently raised its price cap by 54%, meaning millions of households’ energy bills will also increase by around £700 from April.

Torsten Bell, head of the Resolution Foundation, has said that a “cost of living catastrophe” could crystallise in April as families faced “a £1,200 income hit from soaring energy bills and tax rises”.

The 2019 Conservative election manifesto ruled out increasing National Insurance (NI) and promised £350m million a week to fund the NHS post-Brexit – but the party has u-turned on its plans and instead hit working people with tax hikes.

The UK Government recently wrote off £4.3bn in fraudulent Covid loans.

Opposition parties have urged the Conservative government to rethink the increase, arguing workers cannot afford more tax at the moment.

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