Chancellor faces backlash over pensions tax change as Labour pledge to reverse policy announced in budget
Jeremy Hunt defends pension tax giveaway for rich, saying it will lead to people getting NHS operations more quickly
I think this could unravel as quickly as it began. If you remember last September, Liz Truss tried to cut the top rate of tax from 45p to 40p, everybody kicked off about it. We have a particular problem in the NHS. We have large numbers of doctors who are reducing their hours or retiring early. The Royal College of Surgeons say that 69% of their members have reduced their hours because of the way pension taxes work. We have a big backlog in the NHS and all of us depend on the NHS.
. When this figure was put to Hunt, he said he did not accept it. He refused to give a figure for how many more doctors would stay in the workforces as a result of the pension allowance changes. But he said groups representing doctors insisted this would make a difference. He said:
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