General election: May paves way for ending NI and income tax commitments

Theresa May is likely to abandon the Tories’ “triple tax lock” commitment, ruling out increases to VAT but signalling that she could allow a future Conservative government to raise national insurance and income tax.The prime minister, whose government was recently forced into an embarrassing U-turn over plans to raise national insurance for the self-employed, said she did not want to make promises that she would be unable to keep.As such, she would not commit to renewing her pr