‘HE’S NOT ON YOUR SIDE” declares the Labour Party in a campaign graphic featuring a grinning Rishi Sunak at a black-tie event.
“Only 4% of people pay inheritance tax. But Rishi Sunak will save himself nearly £300 million.”
To focus more on telling voters they won’t feel the pain of this tax is to burst the bubbles of those who cling to the fanciful notion that if they work hard enough, they will be among the 4% who will earn millions of pounds. Confused? It doesn’t help that whenever this policy debate arises, overblown and emotive language is always used to discuss it .
However, The Times notes other polls have suggested that attitudes towards inheritance tax are not directly correlated with perception of liability for one’s heirs to pay it. They hear discussion of “death duties” and, perhaps admirably, conclude that if they would feel aggrieved to pay such a thing then fairness dictates that they should feel aggrieved on behalf of the rich too, who might not be paid via the PAYE system but are surely still paying their way. Surely?
Perhaps Labour assessed that the less accurate but more outrageous claim would be a more effective campaign line. Perhaps those who are instinctively – if irrationally – against inheritance tax would be unmoved by the argument that the Prime Minister’s daughters should not benefit from their father’s policies.
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