If people have any form of cash savings, your bank is, it's highly likely that's the worst place on earth.

You could leave your money in your bank's current account.

If you're looking for a straight talking podcast about money and pensions, you've just found it.

On the Pension Confident podcast, we get into the personal finance

questions that really matter. Join me, Philippa Lam, for the Pension Confident podcast. Find us wherever

you get your podcasts. So it was the Conservative Party's turn to have their conference this week,

a sparsely attended and initially rather subdued affair in Manchester, with Shadow Cabinet members or racing

to half-empty halls. In fact, the atmosphere for the first part of the week was almost as dead

as some of Shadow Home Secretary Chris Phelps jokes. Well, I think they were jokes.

And it's not just the Home Secretary.

In the last reshuffle, the Prime Minister removed more ministers from the Home Office than he has

illegal immigrants back to France. It's the way he tells them. But, and it was a big but,

Kemi Bader Knox's leader's speech on Wednesday was,

to the surprise of many, including some of our own MPs,

something of a triumph.

Conference, the next Conservative government

will abolish stamp duty on your home.

Confident, relaxed,

and with a hefty dose of Tory catnip at the end,

a £9 billion pledge to scrap stamp duty on main home purchases

funded partly by a crackdown on welfare,

she sent party members away from Manchester with a smile on their face.

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