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Which taxes will public back for more NHS money?

With reports the government will be giving the NHS extra money as it approaches its 70th anniversary, former Conservative health minister Dan Poulter said this was "much needed and long overdue" and suggested it could need 5% to standstill.

But Andrew Haldenby of the right-wing Reform think-tank suggested the public may only be prepared to back a 1% tax increase, while Ann Pettifor, director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (Prime) compared bailing out the banks in 2008 to extra money for the NHS today.

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