- Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is reportedly preparing to announce cuts to inheritance tax in her major speech at the party conference in Birmingham.
- Badenoch suggested reducing the tax is morally right to prevent double taxation on hard-working people wanting to leave assets to their children.
- Proposals under consideration include lowering the 40 per cent tax rate or raising the threshold, with part of the cost to be funded by welfare cuts.
- Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith confirmed the long-term goal to remove inheritance tax, but emphasised that any cuts must be fiscally responsible and fully paid for.
- Addressing party members, Badenoch vowed that the Conservatives would win the next general election while outlining plans spanning welfare cuts, prison expansion, and free childcare.
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