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Amendment of the law

Indeed. He can have a dukedom as far as I am concerned. The national insurance tax rise, which we will hear much of between now and the election, is about the only real policy the Government have for the recovery: a tax on jobs at a time when we have the fastest rise in unemployment in our history. There was almost nothing in the Budget to help Britain move from an economy of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest. The measures on unemployment were another cruel mirage on a day when we saw a record rise in unemployment.