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Rayner refuses to rule out another inheritance tax raid on furious farmers
Daily Express|November 21, 2024
ANGELA Rayner risked further outraging farmers yesterday as she failed to rule out more inheritance tax rises over the coming years.
- Christian Calgie
Rayner refuses to rule out another inheritance tax raid on furious farmers

During a heated Commons exchange, she was pressed to pledge no more hikes as well as commit to no extra reductions in agricultural property relief or for business property relief before the next election.

Ms Rayner dodged the challenge and insisted she stood by the figures set out by the Government, which suggest the "vast majority of estate owners will be totally unaffected".

Alex Burghart, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, put on a pumped-up performance in his first outing deputising Conservative for leader Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister's Questions.

He said: "Perhaps the right honourable lady Rural rage...T thinks that everyone mass protest came to London yesterday to thank the Government.

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