From Lord Kinnock’s demand for a wealth tax and VAT on private health fees to Gordon Brown pressing for gambling taxes, it is plain that Labour has run out of ideas other than dreaming up new ways to part us from our money. Even so, Kemi Badenoch is ill-advised to go on an all-out attack on council tax reform, as she did in a Mail on Sunday column yesterday.

You don’t have to be a socialist or even a Labour supporter to see that council tax is horribly regressive

According to the Conservative leader, Rachel Reeves is plotting to do as Labour have done in Wales: to set up an IT system to analyse our homes – even down to the size of our garden shed – in order to use it as a valuation tool for new council tax bands. Not only that, Labour think tanks are dreaming up a ‘land value tax’ whic

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