Former Brexit Minister Says Planned National Insurance Hike ‘Never Necessary or Justified’

Former Brexit Minister Says Planned National Insurance Hike ‘Never Necessary or Justified’
Undated file photo of former Brexit minister Lord David Frost. Peter Byrne/PA
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The UK’s former Brexit minister on Monday became the latest senior Conservative MP to pressure Prime Minister Boris Johnson to scrap a tax hike due in April.

Lord David Frost, who recently resigned from the Cabinet over the government’s taxation and other policies, denounced the scheduled £12 billion ($16 billion) National Insurance hike as being neither necessary nor justified, and even less so during a cost-of-living crisis.