Could someone please tell me that I’m being an absolute ‘tard, but I can’t help feeling that if employers are paying an extra 2% in national insurance, won’t that directly reduce the amount of profit a company makes, so reducing tax paid on profits and if companies don’t make profits this will make them go out of business so very bad for the economy.

Increase of 2% NI will also wreak havoc in already stretched sectors, such as uk universities.