Watch live: PM faces Starmer at PMQs as Rishi Sunak prepares to deliver his Spring statement

The Chancellor is facing calls to delay the 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance payments as economists predict inflation could peak from today's 30-year-high of 6.2% to well over 8%.

Labour and others have branded the National Insurance hike 'unfair' with Starmer calling on Sunak to instead look at introducing a windfall tax on oil and gas companies to fund the health and social care deficit.

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