The grieving process is always challenging. But for many families, the slow legal process of distributing an inheritance compounds emotional pain with financial uncertainty. When pressing needs for money arise long before the estate is settled, an ...

Backbenchers argued the measure failed to tackle "abuse by the celebrities and the billionaires" who buy farmland to avoid paying a full inheritance tax bill

A number of Labour MPs in rural seats declined to back the government's move to impose inheritance tax on farmers, but just one voted against.