Robert Peston on risks of abolishing inheritance tax Pledging to axe the hated "death tax" has won voters over before, so maybe it'll work this time, too. We'll found out at some point in 2024, probably the autumn. But will Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt really take the plunge and will it be as popular as they hope? Those with long political memories will recall that former Labour PM Gordon Brown was gearing up to fight a general election in 2007, but was stopped in his tracks by Conservative Shadow Chancellor George Osborne's pledge to raise the IHT threshold to £1million. Osborne's promise that "only…
