It's nothing up to ยฃ325,000 and ยฃ500,000 if you leave a home to your direct descendants.
I'm more worried about child poverty than people paying 40% on every ยฃ1 over 325k on wealth they didn't earn.
My dad died when I was 22. The idea of someone else that age - left without the support of a parent - being forced to pay the government half of the money left behind to cushion that absence makes me feel sick.
Portes "Theres a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher.. this idea its out of control is just wrong"
Spot on!
@pete_mccarthy@PolitlcsUK Tbf he's planning on taking away a huge amount of power from himself to give to local councils, he'll be the least powerful PM we've ever had if he goes through with it.
To anyone considering a leadership challenge I say - put the country first, not your own interests or those you might claim are the interests of the party.
Keir Starmer has a massive democratic mandate from the public, nobody has the right to seek to depose him, nobody.
Not Wes, not Ed, not Andy, not Angie.
Yes Keir is unpopular in the polls, thatโs current public sentiment - itโs not a mandate for getting rid of him. Opinion polls are snapshots of opinions. Local election results are always an opportunity to register a protest. Labour has a job to do, weโre not even two years in yet, things are tough - a leadership challenge would be self indulgent and illogical - in my view.