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Conservative Party inheritance tax policy proposals
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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has moved from considering a proposal to abolish inheritance tax to formally pledging to scrap the tax on family homes if her party wins the next general election. At the Conservative Party annual conference, conference in Birmingham, Badenoch framed the policy as a return to Thatcherite principles, emphasizing reduced state intervention and lower tax pressure. She described the current inheritance tax as a “postcode lottery” that unfairly impacts middle-class families due to rising house prices. Her specific proposal includes raising the individual threshold to £500,000 and allowing couples to leave an additional £1 million tax-free to their descendants. This plan aims to reduce the number of families affected by the tax by more than half. The policy shift is part of a broader Conservative platform that includes ending stamp duty on primary residences residences, rolling back proposed mansion taxes, and cutting welfare and international aid spending on the civil service, regulators, and welfare by approximately £70 billion. billion to fund increased defense and prison capacity. This platform creates a sharp ideological divide with the Labour Party, which Party. Badenoch has focused on social care and pension policies. also explicitly rejected any electoral alliance with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, framing the upcoming general election as a battle for the ‘soul of the nation.’ Critics have challenged continue to challenge the focus of these proposals, noting that only 4.72% of deaths resulted in an inheritance the tax charge in 2023–24 currently affects less than 5% of estates and arguing that the emphasis on inherited wealth may misalign with broader economic pressures such as housing costs and stagnant wages.
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