The Prime Minister insisted Labour is 'for farmers' and said rural communities would benefit from services funded by the £500million tax raid on the sector unveiled by Rachel Reeves last month.
Sir Keir Starmer was accused of telling fairy tales last night after he claimed that most family farms will be 'completely unaffected' by Labour 's inheritance tax raid.
During a series of interviews with BBC local radio stations, he said he did 'understand the concerns' of farmers who staged a mass protest against the plans this week. But he said the 'vast majority are completely unaffected'. Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins said: 'Labour's Family Farm Tax cannot be justified and they need to U-turn immediately. The numbers that they have parroted since the Budget are nothing more than a fairy tale.'
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