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Boris Johnson is facing a cabinet revolt over his plans to increase National Insurance to fund his social care reform plans. The Prime Minister has been considering a 1 percentage point increase in National Insurance to pay for a lifetime cap on the amount people contribute towards their care. The new levy would be charged on both employers and employees, raising £10billion a year. The NI plan faced criticism because it would hit lower-paid workers more than an increase in income tax, and because those of pension age do not pay NI even if they still work. It has now emerged Prime Minister is now also facing a revolt from inside his own cabinet as ministers have said they won't back the plan. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a cabinet revolt over his plans to increase National Insurance to fund his social care reform plans which would see a lifetime cap on care bills According to the Sunday Times, five ministers have said that they oppose the proposed rise which has yet to be

The disgraced former Post Office chief blamed for pursuing a £90million court case against her own staff could be stripped of her CBE under a Government review, it has been reported. Ministers are said to be looking at launching a probe into the Horizon subpostmasters scandal. It could ultimately see ex-boss chief executive Paula Vennells stripped of her 2019 honour, reports the Telegraph. The scandal saw hundreds of innocent Post Office staff sacked, bankrupted or wrongly convicted after cash appeared to vanish from their tills because of a computer glitch.  Ms Vennells was awarded the CBE in the 2019 New Year's Honour's list 'for services to the Post Office and to charity'. The award was made nearly a year before the first group of subpostmasters were awarded compensation for their false prosecution. Dozens have since won cases in the Court of Appeal, in what has previously been described as the 'biggest miscarriage of justice in modern English legal history'.

Hundreds of Sydneysiders will be plunged into isolation after a huge list of 31 new coronavirus exposure sites across the city were revealed. The vast majority of new venues are spread throughout the Harbour City's western suburbs with 141 new locally acquired infections on Sunday including two deaths, bringing the total number of cases to 2,081 since the outbreak began last month. With only essential retail stores still operating in Sydney under strict lockdown rules, a large number of supermarkets and medical centres made up the growing list of exposed venues. This includes five Woolworths, a Coles, two IGA and an Aldi all flagged by NSW Health.  Fairfield Coles shoppers who visited the store on July 16 between 3:00pm to 3:15pm are also considered close contacts, along with anyone who attended Fairfield Aldi on the same day from 3:15pm to 3:30pm Pictured: A medical worker prepares to administer a test at the Bondi Beach drive-through coronavirus testing centre Public health aler

Team GB was guaranteed a medal today after Bradly Sinden won a bitter fight to reach the final in the Taekwondo heavy weight division. Sinden, 22, from Doncaster, came back from behind against a fierce Chinese opponent to kick, punch and wrestle his way to the final. The 2019 World Champion has now earned the chance to win Olympic gold. Pictured: Bradly Sinden of Britain in action against Zhao Shuai of China in 68kg semi-final Great Britain's Bradly Sinden celebrates victory against China's Shuai Zhao in the Men 68kg semifinal match at Makuhari Messe Hall A on the second day of the 2020 Olympic Games But he will be guaranteed to win at least a silver medal. His victory will help the Team GB's Taekwondo troop to get over their bitter disappointment at double Olympic gold-medal winner Jade Jones elimination in her first fight. Sinden, who won the world title in Manchester in 2019, had cruised through his two opening contests, compiling a total of 92 points in wins over New Ze

A fit and healthy Brazilian finance worker in the final year of her Masters degree in Sydney has been revealed as the shock young victim who tragically died of Covid-19. Adriana Midori Takara, 38, returned a positive test for the highly infectious Indian Delta variant on July 15 and succumbed to her illness less than two weeks later. Friends claimed she contracted the virus from her roommate who works as a nurse, and despite trying to get an AstraZeneca vaccine, was denied by her doctor.  Ms Takara had no underlying health conditions that would have contributed to her death and her distraught family back home were forced to say their final goodbyes over Zoom. But the tearful conversation was one-way with Ms Takara never regaining consciousness after emergency heart surgery, after the viral infection spread to her heart.  Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the young woman's death should serve as a stark warning to those complacent about the virus that it does not discriminate. Adriana

Victims of loutish anti-social behaviour are failing to report incidents with actual cases thought to be double official figures, new research has found.  Residents have reported huge surges in the number of incidents such as rowdy neighbours and drinking in the street since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.  And police forces last year recorded two million incidents, up from 1.3million the year before, though a number of forces included breaches of coronavirus rules in the same category.  Now a study has found that 56 per cent of people who were victims or witnesses to loutish behaviour did not report it to any authority.  Victims of loutish anti-social behaviour are failing to report incidents with actual cases thought to be double official figures, new research has found (Pictured: Sean Ivey and his family, whose home was destroyed in an arson attack in March this year)  More than a fifth of people also said the incidents made them feel unsafe where they live.  And 20 per cent of