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June 22, 2025

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The Observer

The chancellor's looming U-turn on inheritance tax reform isn’t merely an embarrassing retreat - it exposes a government constrained by its own limited imagination.

- Clive Lewis

Labour's pledge to end the scandal of the ultra-rich sheltering global fortunes from tax signalled moral clarity. Yet as wealthy non-doms threaten to leave the UK, the Treasury rushes to reassure those with the deepest pockets, rather than uphold economic fairness.

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