BBCNEWS Newsnight March 9, 2017
Pledge, promise, and vow. Three words freighted with probity and trust. But, after anything but an explosive budget, a firecracker blew up in the chancellors face today over the issue of a promise. The question being, why does the government deny breaking a manifesto pledge on National Insurance when the 2015 Election Manifesto clearly said there would be no increase in National Insurance for the five years of an incoming conservative government . Is it ever right to to promise one thing and do another . The chancellor has raised the hackles of the right wing press, Tory Backbenchers of many s...
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