We need more inheritance tax, not less | Patrick Collinson

Few things are liable to cause more anger than proposing a hike in IHT. Yet that’s just what the country needsThere is nothing more natural, we’re told, than a parent’s desire to leave money to their kids to ensure their security. And there’s nothing that provokes more fury among the middle classes than the prospect of an average home, particularly in the south of England, being grabbed off them at death by the evil taxman. Except that it’s a complete load of codswa