Write to letters@thetimes.co.ukSir, Emma Duncan (comment, Jan 17) may well be right in saying that Rachel Reeves should “reverse ferret” on her proposal to increase employers’ national insurance. She suggests the chancellor should compensate for the gap in income by increasing the taxes on voters that Labour promised during its election campaign that it wouldn’t raise. She further suggests that voters would not forgive the government for doing so but this wouldn’t matter because, by breaking its promises, Labour would be bound to lose the next election anyway, so it might as well do the right thing for the country. It is dispiriting but she is probably correct on all counts. Dispiriting because until a political party can be honest with voters

Source: The Times January 18, 2025 18:41 UTC