The real reason abolishing stamp duty won’t help first-time buyers
- Written by Nigel Gilbert, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey
sirtravelalot/ShutterstockScrapping stamp duty may sound like a quick fix to Britain’s housing crisis, but there’s reason to believe it would barely move the needle on affordability – while costing the Treasury billions.
At the Conservative party conference, leader Kemi Badenoch announced that a future Tory government would...







