Self-employed people earning less than £15,900 a year will still see a reduction in their NICs bill, and also benefit from the increased income tax personal allowance.
It is clear that some peers are not so much focused on Parliamentary sovereignty as on finding a backdoor way to thwart and reverse the referendum result.
The committee of which I’m a member recommends that the Government unilaterally commit to safeguard their rights. But this amendment does nothing to help.
Our bilateral relationship is at its most strained since the end of the Cold War. But we should try none the less to work with the country on as many levels as possible.
And the Government needs in the forthcoming Budget to map out a plan for the great challenges of our time: squeezed incomes, changing work, mass migration.