Hello, as I said on Monday's episode of Newscast. Even though the Christmas holidays are well underway, the news has not stopped. We have had the largest drop yet of the so-called Epstein files from the Department of Justice in America, and journalists are combing

through thousands and thousands of emails, documents, pictures, videos and voice notes. And also,

the government has changed tack on one of its big controversial policies, how agricultural

land was going to be treated for inheritance tax purposes,

which had been the subject of a 13-month campaign by farmers.

So that was the first thing I talked about with Alex on this episode of Newscast.

Newscast from the BBC.

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And a little bit later on, we will cross to the US to find out the latest dump of files from the Trump administration about Jeffrey Epstein.

Because there's quite a lot to talk about there.

But first of all, we're going to talk about going on in British politics.

And Alex, I mean, I was saying this yesterday to Lucy Powell.

Like normally this period for political news is very quiet because Parliament isn't sitting. MPs are in the constituencies doing their Christmas cards. But we've had quite a few quite large news stories. Yeah. And I actually thought I was in for a right quiet shift the day before Christmas Eve. You know, I was going to catch up and everything I had to get done work-wise, ready for the new year.

But, uh-huh, no, no, because as I was on my way into work, so came the news that there had been a really significant shift in government policy about what has been a really hotly contested issue for the past, well, over a year. So what was the original policy then

that Richard Reeves came up with in the budget in 2024? Yeah, so this was last year's budget.

And it was in the simplest terms that for people who own farmland that wanted to pass that

farmland on when they died, they were going to

have to start paying inheritance tax. Now, the policy was, it was those assets, those farmland

assets that were worth over a million pound, would have to start paying a reduced rate of

inheritance tax, so 20%, whereas other estates, the rate is 40%. Now after that was announced there was just a really

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