There’s only one answer to the Tory betrayal on inheritance tax

In the dog days of summer 2007, a junior Tory party apparatchik penned a highly sensitive email to a senior colleague and pressed “send”. At the time, Gordon Brown was 10 points ahead in the polls, prompting fevered speculation of a snap election. Addressed to one “Hancock M”, the confidential message outlined all the Conservative Party’s best ideas, including a policy the party leadership hoped would be the big bazooka: a huge cut to inheritance tax.