Stamp duty ‘not necessarily the biggest barrier’ to buying a home

Stamp duty was branded a ‘bad tax’ by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Wire)

Stamp duty is “not necessarily” the biggest barrier to buying a home for some people and the benefits to buyers from scrapping it could be cancelled out by house prices being pumped up, some commentators have said.

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch announced that if in power, the Conservatives would ban stamp duty on people’s primary homes.