Labour is continuing to hand out more than £500 million to foreign farmers – about the same amount projected to be raised by its inheritance tax raid on British farms that threatens to "destroy" them.
Know-it-alls in the media have been saying that farmers should have to pay inheritance tax just like everyone else does on a house. They're missing just one tiny detail, says Philip Leith: a farm is nothing like a house.
The BBC Verify unit used a Labour Party activist as an "independent tax expert" to back its analysis of Government figures on the farm tax, analysis that Keir Starmer then cited as proof he was correct.
Farmers have been told by Rachel Reeves that they must pay inheritance tax to fund the NHS, despite mass protests planned for today and warnings the tax's impact has been massively underestimated.
Furious farmers have descended on the Wales Labour Conference with tractors and placards, accusing Keir Starmer of waging a "war on the countryside" over inheritance tax changes.
A former aide to Tony Blair has called on Labour to "do to the farmers what Thatcher did to the miners".
Defiant farmers are gearing up to blockade ports, choke supply chains and withhold produce in a backlash against Labour's inheritance tax hike.
Farmer John Charlesworth has taken his own life in fear of the Government’s inheritance tax raid, his son has said.
Farmers face paying crippling inheritance taxes if they choose to go green under Treasury rules that could hold back the U.K.’s Net Zero ambitions.
