Jeremy Hunt raised the prospect of national insurance being scrapped during the Budget.Tory plans to scrap National Insurance have been plunged into disarray after a Treasury minister admitted it could take decades for it to happen.Gareth Davies said it “may be several parliaments” before the major tax reform ever sees the light of day.His comments on Sky News this morning came amid mounting confusion over the pledge.Chancellor Jeremy Hunt – who has reduced National Insurance from 12p to 8p in the pound since November – hinted that it could be abolished entirely if the Conservatives are re-elected.Treasury minister Bim Afolami later confirmed the plan, but work and pensions secretary Mel Stride last night would only say the government wanted to “bring national insurance down”.On Sky News, Davies, the exchequer secretary to the Treasury, said: “The starting point is that we think there’s a fundamental unfairness that if you work in a job you pay two types of tax – you pay income tax and you pay national insurance.“What we want to do is we want to get National Insurance contributions down to the extent that we remove the unfairness over time.“The long-term ambition – it may take several parliaments – but the long-term ambition is to remove that unfairness absolutely.”Labour has challenged the Tories to explain how they would pay for the policy, which they said would cost £46 billion a year.In a letter to Rishi Sunak, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, said: “Your predecessor’s disastrous mini-budget included £45 billion in unfunded tax cuts, crashing the economy and sending mortgage rates soaring for millions of households.“Just like Liz Truss, you have so far refused to set out how you are going to pay for this latest shake of the magic money tree.”Related…Another Journalist Just Fell Victim To That Same Old Jeremy Hunt Surname Slip-Up Live On AirJeremy Hunt Gets Worked Up In Radio 4 Exchange After Being Called ‘Fiscal Drag Queen’BBC Presenter Clashes With Jeremy Hunt In Spiky Interview Over Chancellor’s Grasp On Job HuffPost UK – Athena2 – All Entries (Public) Read More