Thousands of farmers protest in London over the inheritance tax rule change
Labour was accused of failing to understand the needs of the countryside as the Prime Minister, thousands of miles away at the G20 summit in Rio, made clear he would not u-turn on the policy – despite an expected backlash in dozens of Labour-held marginals in rural areas.told the rally of around 13,000 people in rain-soaked Whitehall that Chancellor Rachel Reeves had dealt a “hammer blow” by introducing a “farm tax”.
And a Labour insider said: “These people don’t vote for us anyway and the Tories look ridiculous going along with the march.”“They all turned up in their shiny tractors and brand-new Mercedes 4x4s; these aren’t poor people.” The Labour leader himself told the NFU conference a year ago that “losing a farm is not like losing any other business. It can’t come back” while Reed said last December there would be no changes to APR.
“I understand that, as new MPs, it’s hard to speak out, but the strength of feeling about this means that as rural representatives now, those Labour rural MPs need to speak out, and they need to help us in persuading the Treasury to rethink this policy. “Despite the fact that they are not natural friends of Labour, farmers were at least going to give them a chance.“They have won dozens of rural seats and they have thrown their own Labour MPs under a bus at the first hurdle.”A foreign diplomat said: “If you dig in and just say no, it doesn’t tend to go so well. Just ask the French.”
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