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Rishi Sunak insists no cuts to state pension to fund national insurance ambition

Source: PA Wire

Rishi Sunak has insisted the state pension would not be cut to fund his ambition to scrap national insurance contributions altogether.

The Prime Minister said Sir Keir Starmer should “stop scaremongering” after the Labour leader repeatedly pressed for details on how the move would be funded.

In the spring Budget, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced a 2p cut in national insurance and outlined a “long-term ambition” to abolish it altogether.

Pensioners and those who are planning their retirement deserve better than his (Mr Sunak's) contempt for

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