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(1GL$1D – Thousands of nurses, teachers and police officers are to be dragged into the 40p tax band as part of the biggest stealth raid in decades.

$ report out today warns that one in five taxpayers will pay the higher rate by 0 , as a result of the Government’s controversial free]e on tax thresholds.

,n total, . million people will be paying 40p tax, almost five times the figure in the early 1990s when it was seen as a tax reserved for the rich.

The news triggered fresh calls for 5ishi Sunak and -eremy +unt to cut the tax burden, which is at its highest since the Second :orld :ar.

(x-Cabinet Minister Simon Clarke said µ:e think we are suffering with our income tax burden now, but this analysis shows the worst is yet to come.

“:e need to cut spending and taxes to ease the pressure on family finances, and we need to have a moment of levelling with the public that our current economic traMectory is simply unsustainable.

Unfreeze

“That effort needs to begin before the next election, and we need to set out a clear plan to bring income tax rates down and unfree]e the thresholds at which people pay the different rates to reflect the stealth effects of inflation.”

David -ones, another former Cabinet minister, added µPeople of relatively modest means are being pulled into higher tax brackets by fiscal drag, a time-honoured Labour techniTue that Conservatives should never employ.

“-eremy +unt no doubt will want to remedy this and pursue his stated ambition to be a low-tax Chancellor.”

Tory MP Marcus )ysh said µConservatives want to incentivise growth and reward hard work by asking less of the money people earn in tax than the other parties.

“, am in favour of tax cuts that increase supply, reduce inflationary pressure and enable productivity growth.”

)ormer Brexit chief negotiator Lord )rost, who confirmed at the weekend that he was seeking to become a Tory MP, will tell a conference tomorrow that the party must not be distracted from reducing µtax, spend, and regulation’.

L21D21 – 5ebekah Vardy broke down in tears as she described telling her mother she was sexually abused aged 1 - but her mother didn’t believe her - declaring µ1obody valued me enough to protect me’.

The 41-year-old has spoken for the first time about her experiences of growing up as a -ehovah’s :itness, and revealed that she tried to take her own life at the age of 14 before being shunned by her family.

She alleges in a Channel 4 documentary that the religion failed to support her through sexual abuse as a child.

Vardy said “, told my mum about the abuse that , was experiencing. She cried, but didn’t believe me. )rom the age of around 1 years old , was being abused and instead of being supported , was blamed, manipulated into believing it wasn’t the best thing to take it to the police.”

Protect

She then cried as she spoke about the need to protect her own five children - and give them the childhood she had lost to abuse.

The wife of Leicester and (ngland footballer, -amie Vardy was raised as a -ehovah’s :itness in 1orwich, 1orfolk, but left at the age of 1 , after she was µshamed’ for the sexual abuse and she and her family were shunned by the community following her parents’ divorce.

Mother-of-five Mrs Vardy said she was sexually abused by an individual in the community between the ages of 11 to 1 , which she says was covered up by µelders’ - senior male religious leaders.

-ehovah’s :itnesses are a Christian denomination with about . million followers worldwide, who believe the destruction of the world is imminent.