Angela Rayner savaged by Oliver Dowden over Labour tax pledge | Politics | News [Video]

Sir Oliver Dowden pressed Angela Rayner on reports Chancellor Rachel Reeves could raise employers’ national insurance at the Budget.

The shadow deputy prime minister said: “I think the whole House will have heard the Deputy Prime Minister disregard five million hard-working small business owners.

“These are the publicans, the shopkeepers, the family running a local cafe, none of those count as working people to her.

“Now, Labour gave a clear commitment not to raise national insurance. The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies have given their view on this, they say that raising employer national insurance is a tax on working people, even the Chancellor said that raising employer national insurance was a jobs tax that will make each new recruit more expensive and increase the cost to business.

“So does she agree with the IFS and her own Chancellor?

The Deputy Prime Minister replied: “I remember the party opposite, what they said to business, what was …