Stamp duty does not apply in Scotland and Wales, which have separate property taxes. The Welsh Conservatives have said they will replicate the cut if they win power in May’s elections.
In her conference speech, Badenoch claimed the Conservative Party was “fizzing with ideas” to fix the “broken model” she said was holding the country back.
She pledged to scrap a string of government policies – from new employment rights to VAT on private school fees.
And she ran through some of the big policy announcements the party has made this week, including:
Her promise to end the “family farm tax” got a big cheer in the hall, and her proposals to slash welfare spending and take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights also went down well.
In a sustained attack on the Labour government, she said: “All they have delivered is a doom loop of higher taxes, weaker borders, and month after month of chaos.
“They had a plan to win, but no plan for power.
“No vision for Britain. They know how to make promises, but not how to deliver them.”
Acknowledging the Conservatives’ dire opinion poll ratings and recent local election losses, she said voters were “still angry” with her party.
And in a swipe at Reform, she said this had led to “parties that in normal times would never be seen as a serious option for government are gaining ground, making promises they will never be able to keep”.
But the speech was chiefly aimed at emphasising that the Conservative Party is under new leadership – one that was prepared to make the “bold” and “tough” decisions that her opponents would not.
