Olis Johnson The Conservative Party has seen a rebellion to ensure that MPs support his controversial £12 billion tax increase to deal with the NHS Covid backlog and reform social care funding.
Although many Conservative Party members were deeply dissatisfied, the House of Commons voted 319 to 248 in favor of increasing national insurance contributions by 1.25 percentage points.
Five backbenchers voted against the measure, while 37 others did not vote-although not all of them will deliberately abstain, because some will be allowed to leave Westminster.
Five rebels including former cabinet minister Sir John Redwood With Esther McVeigh and Sir Christopher Joop Philip Davis and Neil Hudson.
At least five other people-Jack Berry, Steve Baker, Dherna Davidson, Richard Drax and Sir Roger Gale-said they abstained deliberately.
The result announced by the House of Representatives means that the majority of the government’s work has been reduced from more than 80 votes to 71 votes-although the list of districts announced later only recorded 317 votes in favor of the measure.
In recent months, there has been a series of discrepancies in the number of votes announced in the House of Commons and the official division lists.
The results reflect concerns within the Conservative Party that not only did Mr. Johnson give up his declaration of not raising the main tax rate, but he is reducing his tax burden to peacetime record levels.
It is frustrating that a plan to cap the cost of social care in England at £86,000 will primarily benefit elderly families in the wealthier areas of the south, at the expense of working families elsewhere.
Some MPs also questioned whether the promised share of England’s social care funds will be honored, or whether it will be absorbed by the NHS first.
During the debate in the House of Commons, Jack Berry, the head of the Conservative Member of the Northern Research Group, warned that this is a tax that “will never fall, only rise.”
“This is fundamentally unconservative. In the long run, it will seriously damage the prospects of our party because we will never bid more than Migrant labor party In the arms race of NHS taxation,” he said.
At the same time, the ministers turned to the Labour Party to vote against a measure that would provide additional funding for the NHS.
Conservative Party co-chair Amanda Millin said: “They voted against providing critical funds to solve the Covid backlog in our hospitals and limit the cost of care for the elderly and vulnerable groups, and they did not provide their own plans.”
The Labour Party argued that it is unfair to fund the plan by increasing the National Insurance, and it is a “tax on employment” and will not end the need for people to sell their houses to pay for social care.
