Cash plea from MPs after Labour National Insurance tax hike

MPs basal accused of hypocrisy for demanding much currency to offset ­Labour’s taxation rises.

Their national allies are calling for other money for politicians to wage staff, The Sun connected Sunday tin reveal.

The determination comes aft the Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a hike successful Employers’ National Insurance from April.

A root said: “It’s a spot affluent MPs consciousness they should person peculiar attraction erstwhile charities are looking astatine letting radical spell due to the fact that they can’t spend it.”

Care homes and hospices person warned the hikes could unit them to close.

And 70 companies including Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Next person warned shops volition unopen arsenic a result.

Sources said national Unite were starring the complaint for Labour MPs portion Tory offices were lobbying via a unit relation called MAPSA.

In 1 parliament WhatsApp group, a subordinate of unit for a Tory MP said: “I’m hoping for an uplift to bespeak [the] summation successful Employers’ National Insurance (otherwise we can’t springiness immoderate unit raises astatine all).”

London MPs get £268,550 each twelvemonth for unit wage and extracurricular the superior they get £250,820. They usually employment astir 3 to 5 staff.

Sources accidental Ipsa, which regulates MP business costs, volition instrumentality the NICs hike into relationship for caller budgets astir March.

TaxPayers’ Alliance main John O’Connell said: “The sheer brass cervix of parliamentarians volition infuriate taxpayers.

"If politicians are going to unit businesses and workers to tighten their belts, they should beryllium told to tighten theirs."

Hiking the leader complaint of NICs to 15 per cent and lowering the tax-free threshold to £5,000 was the biggest revenue-raiser successful the Chancellor's Budget past month.

NHS and the remainder of the nationalist assemblage are exempt from the tax rise.

An Ipsa spokesperson said: “Ipsa reviews unit wage each twelvemonth and decides connected a cost-of-living summation which is payable to MPs’ staff, based connected comparable enactment crossed the nationalist sector.”