National Insurance increases vote

At last weeks full council meeting your Liberal Democrat councillors supported a motion regarding the impact of the National Insurance increases on local residents living and working in Rushmoor.

Nationally Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said:

“Hammering small businesses with a tax hike is the wrong choice. It will hit people's wages and jobs, but it also risks worsening the NHS crisis by hiking costs for care providers and pushing some to the brink.

“It just shows that yet again the government seems to have forgotten about care. At the very least, the Chancellor should be exempting social care from this costly jobs tax.”