Ken Clarke says that increasing the inheritance tax threshold is "an aspiration", rowing back from previous party committments.

"We´re seeing the same old Tory behaviour once again" said Nigel Farage, UKIP leader. "They announce some sensible policy, like raising the inheritance tax threshold, and see their support jump. More than 11% in the polls that one got them. Then a few months or years later they row back on that promise.

"Now it´s only an aspiration as Ken Clarke told us instead of a firm promise. It´s typical, they tell us what they think we want to hear and then renege as soon as is indecently possible. With this sort of inability to keep their word, how and why could anyone trust them when they talk about the European Union?

"Whether those promises of "in Europe but not run by Europe" are promises that they won´t keep or that they can´t keep is irrelevant: what´s obvious is that they are promises that they won´t keep. Which of course is why so many Conservatives are going to be lending their votes to us in UKIP for we do keep our promises. As indeed we will do with our committment to abolishing inheritance tax altogether."