Two birds with one stone
“With the plan, Johnson wants to solve two problems at once,” says correspondent Fleur Launspach. “He wants to close the backlog in the NHS (The National Health Service, the free healthcare). 5.5 million patients are still waiting for treatment or surgery that has been postponed due to the corona pandemic.”
“And on the other hand, he wants to tackle the problem of restructuring care for the elderly and disabled. That restructuring has been pushed forward like a hot potato by several governments. Johnson wants to tackle that now, but says he can only do that if he pays taxes. increases.”
Within the Conservative Party there is a lot of resistance to raising taxes, the correspondent says. “But Johnson counters that no one saw the corona pandemic coming and that therefore he sees no other option.”
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