Only a 'direct descendant' can benefit from the extra allowance.

An individual can leave up to 325,000 of assets tax-free, or up to 450,000 if passing on their main home to a direct descendant.

Its direct descendant also happens to be yesterday's shambles, in which the government watered down its price-cap manifesto promise and deliver cheaper energy for the few, not the many.

He was a direct descendant of the original purchaser and moved in with his family in 1981.

Then he would go on showing how his line, and particularly he, was the direct descendant of the original settler.