Tories Eye End to UK Inheritance Tax and Childcare Cliff Edge
First reported 3 Oct, 09:47 UTCUpdated 15m ago8 sources
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UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is using her party’s annual convention to call for the end of inheritance tax and an expansion of childcare support to higher earners.
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- Kemi Badenoch is stronger than ever but faces fight of her life to be Prime Minister (opens Daily Express in a new tab)
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- Can Kemi Badenoch rescue Britain’s Conservatives? (opens The Globe and Mail in a new tab)
The first Black woman to lead a U.K. major political party is hitting her stride, but the Tories have a long way to go
- Kemi Badenoch has cemented her image. Now she wants to put her party back on the big stage (opens BBC News in a new tab)
The Conservative leader is expected to set out a return to core conservative principles at the party’s annual conference.
- Tories pledge to fix £100,000 childcare 'cliff edge' that forces parents to work less (opens Daily Mail in a new tab)
Kemi Badenoch will vow that a Tory government would stop couples losing access to free childcare once one parent earns more than £100,000 at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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- Tories Eye End to UK Inheritance Tax and Childcare Cliff Edge (opens Bloomberg in a new tab)
UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is using her party’s annual convention to call for the end of inheritance tax and an expansion of childcare support to higher earners.
- Kemi Badenoch grilled on return of Tory 'nasty party' with welfare crackdown (opens The Mirror in a new tab)
Conservative chief Kemi Badenoch instead claimed she was overseeing an 'old-school' approach when presented with Theresa May's 2002 toxic warning to her party
- Badenoch says Tories want policies ‘for everybody’ as she defends plan to let millionaires get free childcare – UK politics live (opens The Guardian in a new tab)
Conservative leader defends plan to extend free childcare to high earners, as Tory conference begins in Birmingham today On Friday the Times revealed that Katie Lam , the communities secretary, told a meeting in private earlier this year that the state pension system needs a fundamental overhaul. Speaking in June…
