In full: Rishi Sunak launches Tory manifesto

Rishi Sunak has unveiled plans to abolish National Insurance payments for almost all self-employed people if the Tories win the election.

At the launch of the Tory manifesto he said more than nine in 10 self-employed people - some four million workers - would be exempted from the tax.

He said the announcement was “a further downpayment” on his party’s long-term plan to abolish the levy entirely, which it calls a double tax on work.

The Tory manifesto states: “To recognise the unique contribution of these risk-takers and entrepreneurs to our economy and the insecurity they face without the rights and protections that employees enjoy, we will abolish it entirely by the end of the next Parliament.”
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