Conservative MPs across the United Kingdom are calling on Labour to scrap the Family Farm and Business tax that will damage British Farming and Family Businesses. Despite Labour previously promising to protect farmers, under Government proposals, more than 75 per cent of farms across the country will be hit by new inheritance tax laws.
They will be devastating for family farms and pose a serious risk to domestic food security and food prices. Labour and Keir Starmer do not have a plan to get a grip on the public finances and are now punishing farmers because of their failures. Among those who is calling for Labour to axe the Family Farm and Business Tax is Conservative MP for Witham, Priti Patel who says Labour’s political choice to target farmers is a cruel blow to the industry and that Labour must do the right thing and not implement the Family Farm Tax.
Commenting, Priti Patel said:
“The Family Farm and Business Tax has been imposed by a Labour Government that has no understanding of rural life or the importance of family farms. They don’t care about rural communities, and they don’t understand farming.
“Now Labour has a chance to accept that they have pushed British Farming into a food and farming emergency with their Family Farm and Business Tax and their other farming failures. Conservatives are on the side of rural communities and will axe Labour's Family Farm and Business Tax at the first opportunity. The farmers who work long hours to serve us food every day deserve better. Labour should u-turn and axe their Family Farm and Business Tax at the budget”.
