Farmers staged a protest outside a housing development in Milton Keynes, forcing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to cut short his visit. They drove tractors, sounded horns, and demanded a meeting to discuss the government's new inheritance tax on farms worth over £1 million.
Farmers forced the prime minister to cut short a visit to a housing development as they drove tractors to the site in a protest against changes to inheritance tax. Sir Keir Starmer was in Buckinghamshire to announce more than 100 new towns could be built under the government's plans for the 'largest house building programme since the post-war era'.
Sir Keir later said his government had made a 'political choice' to grow the economy and bring NHS waiting lists down instead of maintaining 'the tax break for farmers'. 'People watching this will understand that that is a choice. They will know what they would prefer,' he said. 'Do they want their waiting lists to come down, do they want their mortgages to come down, the economy to start working for everyone? 'That is what we are trying to achieve.
INHERITANCE TAX FARMING PROTESTS SIR KEIR STARMER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ECONOMY
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