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Are you a ‘working person’? Why billions of pounds rest on Labour’s definition

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Labour’s manifesto seemed to have ruled out the three taxes that account for more than two thirds of government's income.

Yet Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering an increase in employers’ national insurance contributions, as well as a further freeze on income tax thresholds.

Reeves has used the “working people” qualification to say the promise did not cover employer NI .

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73

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73

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informal

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English

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49

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short-lived

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