The Treasury is eyeing up additional ISA reforms to boost retail investing

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is looking to boost UK share ownership as part of her plans to overhaul ISAs, with potential measures including a minimum holding of British companies and a stamp duty tax break.

The move is an evolution of the previously scrapped Conservative plan to create a ‘Brit ISA’ and comes as Reeves searches for growth-enhancing measures in her looming November Budget.

Reeves is already planning a major ISA shakeup which would shift Brit’s savings from cash to domestic stocks in a bid to drive retail investing, as cash ISAs remain the country’s most popular account choice.

However, people briefed on her thinking say she is also eyeing reforms to the stocks and shares ISA in order to boost the Lon

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