and Badenoch had lots of emotive things about the physical home in her speech (shared Christmases etc...)

In effect yes. But why obsess re family house as opposed to just hiking cash thresholds

certainly no IHT -- would need to check social care asset rules

If we could stop abuse that would be better

I thought you were suggesting it wasn't

well London is in Europe because they are here as well

BTW if you have spare billions to spend on tax reforms, lots of better pro-growth tax reforms to spend it on. But memo to all politicians - we really don't have billions knocking around to decide how to spend. Not even once you have "adjusted" the triple lock. Sorry.

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So rubbish

Also, if you genuinely think IHT is immoral because it means taxing wealth twice / taxing aspiration / the human urge to pass assets down to children or whatever, it shouldn't matter what form those assets take. Encouraging people to treat property like a wealth bank rather than a home is bad!

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I think its probably just the CO knee jerk of never disclose.