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PM risks 'significant backlash' over national insurance rise, says Hammond

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, said the party supports the "broad principle" of increasing taxes for the wealthy to pay for NHS and social care.
47% : Hammond is among a number of senior Conservatives who oppose the planned rise to fund an overhaul of social care, including the former prime minister John Major, the former lord chancellor David Gauke and the former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith.
44% : The Labour frontbencher said the prime minister would "load the entirety of the cost of social care on to supermarket workers [and] delivery drivers, who are already suffering with high childcare costs, high housing costs and who kept us going through the pandemic".
40% : Increasing national insurance contributions (NICs) to pay for social care would provoke a "very significant backlash" for Boris Johnson, the former chancellor Philip Hammond has said.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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