BBCNEWS BBC News March 9, 2017
Welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister has insisted that the controversial change announced in the budget to increase National Insurance for Self Employed workers is simpler, fairer and more progressive. Theresa may refused to accept that the government had broken a manifesto pledge saying the promise had only extended to one kind of National Insurance. But the move has angered a number of conservative backbenchers and been roundly criticised by labour. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. Brussels is rarely a place where british Prime Ministers can find a retreat, but theresa may e...