Front pages focus on the prime minister’s £12bn healthcare levy set to push the tax burden to a record peacetime level
The prime minister strikes a series of unusual poses on the front pages of UK papers as he sets out his tax hike plan, with MPs likely to pass the £12bn healthcare levy on Wednesday.
The Guardian’s headline asks whether the plan will deliver. It quotes Labour leader Keir Starmer, social care providers and charities saying that the extra resources will be insufficient or, as Starmer puts it, like “a sticking plaster over a gaping wound”.
