Frank Skinner: Labour’s rhetoric on inheritance tax ‘made me feel guilty’
Comedian says self-made people ‘shouldn’t be in same section as Rees-Mogg children’
![Frank Skinner pictured around Hampstead Heath](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2024/08/01/TELEMMGLPICT000341428865_17225309222570_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqLy4u3FUD_xJDD7pfymkOorz4KbPcYxgQoimASXji2sE.jpeg?imwidth=350)
Jump to content
Comedian says self-made people ‘shouldn’t be in same section as Rees-Mogg children’
The Chancellor’s decision to scrap the universal benefit for millions of people could hurt the most vulnerable in society
Fears grow over tax grab on higher earners as Chancellor seeks to shore up public finances
The Labour general election manifesto made an explicit promise there will be no increases in income tax, National Insurance or VAT
Reform leader says decision to restrict payments suggests Labour doesn’t care about pensioners
Rachel Reeves’ options for death duty reforms, from raiding pensions to restricting gifting
Free travel and prescriptions are possible sources of income as Chancellor seeks to fill £22bn black hole
The decision to scrap the social care cap leaves families potentially on the hook for vast bills
Plus: Cancelled ‘Crusaders’; cancer screening; married to Dubonnet; school VAT; and driving from Peking to Paris in a classic British car
It claims to put country before party, but it’s giving in to eco-lunatics, unions and sectarian division
To campaigners it was a ‘monstrous project’, to locals a chance to end their traffic hell: this week Rachel Reeves consigned it to history
By imposing further OBR guardrails on fiscal policy, the new Chancellor severely limits her freedom to manoeuvre
Amount of cash sent to Holyrood by Treasury to administer the scheme set to be drastically scaled back
Clobbering pensioners won’t fix Britain. It’s a displacement activity designed to distract from the real problems facing this country
Chancellor’s cost cutting feels like a ‘mini-Beeching’, say campaigners
Those who have paid into the system their entire lives are now being asked to make sacrifices on behalf of new arrivals
Chancellor accused of ‘tossing aside’ issue after decision to scrap lifetime cap on costs
Chancellor insists 20pc levy on fees is needed as Labour claims policy will raise up to £1.7bn for state sector
Britons plan to dodge death duties as Rachel Reeves reveals £22bn funding black hole
Darren Jones told Jeremy Hunt last autumn that retirees would be left ‘anxious’ and ‘concerned’ by any change to the system
Former prime minister says Civil Service is hostile to Tory thinking after ‘blatant attacks’ on her mini-Budget
Plus: The two Tory parties; Israel and Hezbollah; Constable’s poor; Brexit and bottle caps; grating commentary; and searching for Dubonnet
Treasury insists there would be a minimal impact on state classrooms with enough space for extra pupils