Politics

The Office for National Statistics said GDP fell 0.1% in October 2024. Services showed 'no growth', while Production (-0.6%) and construction (-0.4%) both fell.

The need to keep up the momentum to force change on Inheritance Tax plans and FG's campaign to Save Britain's Family Farms were on the agenda this week from Farmers Guardian's Head of News and Business Alex Black

Agricultural groups across Europe voice opposition to deal

"(Farmers) who are genuinely in ill health or don't believe that they will be able to live for seven years, may well decide they shouldn't be here in April 2026. No policy should ever be published which has that unintended side effect"

"Our countryside will remain needlessly under threat"

"I do not think large farmers should be exempt from Inheritance Tax because no-one else is"

Howes Percival partner Stuart Maggs, said it was ‘disingenuous' to suggest the only people impacted by this policy are the ones having to pay tax, highlighting many farmers who will spend ‘thousands if not tens of thousands' on legal fees in response to the policy change

UFU president William Irvine said once all the facts were laid out on the table, it seemed the negative impact that the budget changes will have on NI started to 'hit home'

'Today we stand united and have shown Westminster they cannot continue to take farmers for granted'

More than 100 tractors will circle City of York as farmers pile pressure on Labour Government