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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch wants to scrap inheritance tax, which she calls the "death tax," aiming to relieve the burden on middle-class families. She plans to announce this during the Conservative party conference in Birmingham next month and has already asked her team to find ways to eliminate the tax responsibly. Badenoch argues that wealthy individuals can use trusts or move assets abroad to avoid inheritance tax, while ordinary citizens struggle with it due to home ownership and business inheritances.
Written by the local model on 2026-09-15,
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same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader, announced plans to scrap inheritance tax, also known as "death tax," aiming to help ordinary families build generational wealth. This move comes amid disputes over billionaires donating to political parties and follows her previous pledge to abolish stamp duty if she becomes prime minister. Expected to be unveiled during her speech at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham next month, this policy seeks to relieve the financial burden on middle-class families who are disproportionately affected by inheritance tax due to rising house prices.
Written for “Inheritance Tax Debate UK” on 2026-09-17,
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'The people caught by inheritance tax are mostly home-owning middle-class families due to house price inflation, diligent savers, and small-business owners,' she said.
right frames the policy as a burden on ordinary citizens
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'I think it is morally wrong to punish people for doing the right thing – spending a lifetime working, saving, building up a business or a home to pass on to the next generation.'
right argues against inheritance tax as punitive
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'We are on their side,' she said, adding: 'But we won't make any announcement till there's a clear plan.'
right aligns with the interests of middle-class families
Leaning score +0.45 for article 9923 (high confidence, 3 verified quotes) · logged 2026-09-15
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Kemi Badenoch wants to scrap the hated 'death tax'.
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Badenoch → see → tax
The Tory leader confirmed she was looking at how to ditch inheritance tax to relieve the burden that falls heavily on middle-class families.
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that → confirm → families
Amid rows about billionaires donating to political parties, Mrs Badenoch said she wanted to help 'ordinary families build generational wealth', and there are growing expectations that she will announce the policy during her speech to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham next month.
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she → donate → Birmingham
New Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith has said that inheritance tax would be his first choice if he could get rid of any levy.
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he → say → levy
It would follow Mrs Badenoch's pledge to abolish stamp duty if she becomes prime minister – a policy which electrified last year's party conference and helped revive both the party and her leadership.
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which → follow → party
Mrs Badenoch last night revealed that she had asked her team to find 'fiscally responsible ways' to tackle the 'burden' of the levy on estates, while taking aim at Reform UK and its billionaire crypto backers.
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she → reveal → UK
'The people caught by inheritance tax are mostly home-owning middle-class families due to house price inflation, diligent savers, and small-business owners,' she said.
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she → catch → inflation
'The super-wealthy can afford trusts and sophisticated tax planning or move abroad.'
Mrs Badenoch seized on a claim made by Reform's Robert Jenrick that it would be 'morally wrong' to prioritise abolishing inheritance tax ahead of taking low earners out of paying income tax, marking a major policy divide between the two parties on the Right.
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it → afford → Right
Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has revealed she wants to scrap the hated 'death tax' (She is pictured outside The British Museum last week)
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She → reveal → Museum
Mrs Badenoch seized on a claim made by Reform's Robert Jenrick (pictured on Monday) that it would be 'morally wrong' to prioritise abolishing inheritance tax
In the first official confirmation that the move is being considered after it was first revealed by The Mail on Sunday, she wrote on social media: 'Reform says abolishing inheritance tax is "morally wrong".
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abolishing → seize → tax
'I think it is morally wrong to punish people for doing the right thing – spending a lifetime working, saving, building up a business or a home to pass on to the next generation.
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it → think → generation
She admitted that Conservative supporters will 'sometimes include wealthy people' but said her party was on the side of millions who have 'paid their dues' and want what they have built up to benefit their children or communities.
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built → admit → children
'We are on their side,' she said, adding: 'But we won't make any announcement till there's a clear plan.'
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we → say → announcement
Mrs Badenoch also took a swipe at Reform donors including Christopher Harborne, one of the two cryptocurrency tycoons whose record-breaking £72million donations are at the centre of a growing row over political funding.
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donations → take → funding
She claimed that they 'don't need to worry about ordinary inheritance tax planning, because they keep money in crypto or out of the country'.
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they → claim → country
Last night her former Tory leadership rival Mr Jenrick hit back, saying: 'We can all agree inheritance tax is a bad tax.
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tax → hit → ?
But the question is, when you have to choose what to cut first, given the appalling state of the public finances, what do you pick?
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you → have → what
'You are choosing to help the wealthiest 5 per cent, while we want to raise the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000 to benefit 97 per cent of workers instead.'
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we → choose → workers
Although Andy Burnham has ruled out going to the country early, many in Westminster believe he will do so to free himself from Keir Starmer's manifesto pledges and red lines on tax.
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he → rule → tax
He is known to favour a different kind of 'death tax', in the form of a potential 10 per cent levy payable by the majority of households on death to fund his plans for social care.
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He → know → care
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