Tory £6bn inheritance tax cut plan Increase threshold from £1m per couple to £2m+home. In 2024-25, 30,400 estates paid IHT, may rise to 52,100 in 2029-30. IHT cut for the richest, paid by cutting benefits for old, sick, disabled, unemployed. How will it help economic growth, reindustrialization?
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It's only nineteen years since the Tories last promised to do away with inheritance tax for most people. Never happened of course. www.theguardian.com/money/2007/o...
A reminder that inheritance tax is progressive and helps to alleviate intergenerational inequality. It was supported by the liberal J.S. Mill for this reason www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unionist Party policy announcements regarding Scotland are driven on one premise. What will go down well with the English Electorate (that's the voter segment that wins general elections) The more robustly, arrogantly and autocratically they kick Scotland the better it will go down.
It is now official. The British Conservative Party is the champion of inherited wealth at the expense of those who try to achieve things on the basis of their own merit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today’s note: tactically, strategically and morally, Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Reform is the right line to draw. Now she has to enforce it:
Tory Party courting the rich, older vote in policy surprise shock twist... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Tories and Reform, 2 names one party as they follow the same agenda, as both seek to implement projects which wreck the existing green environmental policies, as wealthy landowners benefit and nature and our #wildlife suffer.
Hedgehog:Red Fox::Leave:Remain, will not be taking questions
FPTP guys getting very mad on behalf of Fox, who was robbed
