As tax goes up and social care services remain underfunded, councils will be blamed, shadow communities’ secretary Steve Reed has claimed.
Hitting out at the Government’s plans for a National Insurance rise – and the social care precept – to pay for the NHS backlog and social care pressures, the Labour spokesman said tax was at its highest for 70 years.
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