UK politics: Boris Johnson defends national insurance increase amid cost of living crisis – as it happened

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Keir Starmer says the national insurance rise is the wrong tax at the wrong time".

The Labour leader said:

People are really, really struggling to pay their bills. And this is just going to impact on them very, very hard.

There are lots of landlords who've got many, many properties and they are not going to be paying a penny more in tax. Their tenants, who are going out to work, are going to be paying more in tax.