Betting the house

Kemi's £9bn plan to bin stamp duty (if, er, she is ever the PM)

- BY LIZZY BUCHAN Political Editor

KEMI Badenoch pledged to scrap Stamp Duty as she battled to claw back the spotlight onto her floundering party yesterday.

The Conservative leader sought to enliven a lacklustre party conference with a brazen speech on how the Tories were the only ones to undo the damage from their 14 years in power.

Her rabbit from the hat was a pledge to abolish the duty, which she said hurts the housing market.

Ms Badenoch told the Tory faithful in Manchester: “Stamp Duty is a bad tax. We must free up our housing market, because a society where no one can afford to buy or move is a society where social mobility is dead.”