BREAKING: Boris Johnson is expected to raise national insurance by about 1.2% to pay for a pledge to end the "catastrophic costs" of social care, a move Tory MPs claim amounts to a £10bn tax raid.

Sky's @BethRigby has the latest.

Read more here: https://t.co/tFIjPffA23 pic.twitter.com/BLxSbdlQT4

— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 6, 2021

BREAKING: Prime Minister confirms he will announce a social care plan tomorrow to "end the injustice of catastrophic costs for social care."

As for a rise in National Insurance, he says "My government will not duck the tough decisions needed".

Expect a choppy day tomorrow.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) September 6, 2021

Boris Johnson faces growing red wall rebellion over social care tax rises https://t.co/YyuzYWObq5

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) September 6, 2021

Given Ministers are apparently still "haggling" over numbers – never mind how it will work – I think we can all agree that when Boris Johnson stood on the steps of Downing Street over two years ago and said he had prepared a plan to fix social care he was telling a big fat lie.

— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) September 6, 2021

Increasing National Insurance, as currently configured, is hugely unfair, hitting hardest those younger workers & those less well off. Based on NHS principle, we need a fair tax system to provide free social care for everyone & to pay carers a decent wage https://t.co/PGmnfDJFQz

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) September 5, 2021

A rise in National Insurance would hit low earners and young people hard, and place an enormous burden on businesses trying to get back on their feet.

The Conservative's unfair and misguided approach shows they’re out of touch and out of ideas.https://t.co/mf43jcrwyL

— Rachel Reeves (@RachelReevesMP) September 6, 2021

Tim Walker – Paying for social care from NI means the poorest will have to pay for it… so why not get the really wealthy to pay, like non-dom billionaires. The Telegraph tells us what we should do in relation to tax, but the owner doesn't pay much tax b/c he' a non-dom himself pic.twitter.com/fib6zzxtrx

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) September 6, 2021

Interesting framing: People saying gov't should't break its manifesto pledges or that National Insurance is an unfair, regressive way to pay for social care are "grumpy". While Johnson "whatever you think of him" is determined to take on hard issues whatever the political cost.🤔 pic.twitter.com/oThVXXvR7X

— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) September 6, 2021

Tory rebellions rarely go anywhere. The instinct for sticking together to share the spoils conferred by control of the Commons trumps everything. There’ll be huffing and puffing – but Johnson will get his social care reform package funded by a NIC increase. Don’t be fooled.

— Will Hutton (@williamnhutton) September 6, 2021

Levelling up:

Millionaires cutting £20 a week from the poorest in the country and getting the less well-off to pay for social care while the wealthy retired don’t have to.

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) September 6, 2021

I'm sick and tired of waiting for Marcus Rashford to put forward a fully costed plan for social care

— Henry Mance (@henrymance) September 6, 2021

Not sure what the problem is with funding social care.
According to the Brexit bus, leaving the EU 31 weeks ago should have already saved us £10.8bn so let’s just use that.

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) September 6, 2021

It is an insult for anyone to go round talking about 'fixing" social care without fixing the disgrace of care workers earning poverty wages – 3/4 less than the living wage and thousands more less than the legal minimum.https://t.co/Y9d9MJWo5E

— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) September 6, 2021

Privatization of social care in England is a disaster: low wages, high staff turnover, 170,000 vacancies, lack of training, 41,000 care home workers have received no vaccine; profiteering by corporations. Personalized care is impossible. End privatization.https://t.co/Mvg2KssDtv

— Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) September 5, 2021

Guardian front page, Monday 6 September 2021: PM faces mutiny over plan to raise taxes for social care pic.twitter.com/7eJw3LLDEm

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) September 5, 2021