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The Conservatives will seek to heap fresh pressure on Andy Burnham to cut public spending in order to fund a major reduction in inheritance tax.
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Conservatives → seek → tax
Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith branded the levy on estates 'immoral' ahead of a Commons vote on party plans to exempt family homes, businesses and farms from death duty.
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Griffith → brand → duty
The Tories will use an opposition day debate tomorrow to draw a line in the sand on the issue as they seek to take the fight to Labour ahead of the Budget later this month.
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they → use → Budget
It is also being seen as an attempt to reverse gains by the Liberal Democrats in affluent southern seats at the 2024 election.
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It → see → election
Leader Kemi Badenoch used the party conference last week to introduce the IHT pledge, which would also raise the threshold for death duties to £500,000 if the Tories win power.
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Tories → use → power
Mr Griffith said: 'People work hard all their lives to leave the best possible legacy for their children, and a key part of that is their family home.
'Inheritance Tax is an immoral tax which punishes people for doing just that.
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which → say → that
Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith branded the levy on estates 'immoral' ahead of a Commons vote on party plans to exempt family homes, businesses and farms
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Griffith → brand → homes
That is why we have pledged to scrap Inheritance Tax on the family home and reverse Labour's cruel family farm and family business taxes too.
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we → pledge → taxes
'And to do it, we have set out plans to save billions of pounds by reducing spending, including getting the ballooning welfare bill under control.
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we → do → control
'MPs of all parties now have the chance to back hard-working families by supporting our motion.'
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MPs → have → motion
Mrs Badenoch used a tubthumping leaders' speech in Birmingham to vow the next election will be a 'battle for the soul of the nation' as she promised her party would focus on letting people 'keep more of what they earn' if returned to office.
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they → use → office
Party officials say the move would be funded by measures including the reintroduction of the two-child benefit cap and cuts to out-of-work welfare payments and universal credit.
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move → say → payments
Mrs Badenoch said it would mean the number of families paying inheritance tax would fall by more than half, and couples could leave behind an additional £1million tax-free.
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couples → say → 1million
The existing levy is charged on the value of estates above £325,000, with the nil-rate band rising to £500,000 for those who leave their main home to direct descendants.
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who → exist → descendants
According to Conservative analysis, the plans would cost around £6billion as of the 2029-30 financial year.
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plans → accord → year
It also wants to reverse the move to levy IHT on farmland.
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It → want → farmland
Former chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the Government would levy inheritance tax on family farms in the party’s first budget in 2024.
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Government → announce → 2024
However, plans for the tax were watered down in December last year following a vocal campaign by farmers including Jeremy Clarkson and internal pressure from some of Labour’s rural MPs.
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plans → water → MPs
Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins said: 'Labour have been waging war on rural communities ever since they came to office.
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they → say → office
'Their family farm tax is an ideological attack on the people who have been producing our country's food for generations.
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who → produce → generations
'Like Labour's family business tax and Inheritance Tax on the family home, the family farm tax must go.
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tax → go → home
'Labour MPs in rural areas have the choice of voting with us for their constituents or against them.
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MPs → have → them
If Labour doesn't axe this vindictive tax in full, we will when we're back in government.'
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we → axe → government
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