Boris Johnson supports farmers' protests in APR row

"If I am around and I happen to see a tractor, I am not excluding the possibility that I would strongly sympathise with the driver of that tractor"

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Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "I think it's mad. It's absolutely mad. I do not know why they have done it."
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Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "I think it's mad. It's absolutely mad. I do not know why they have done it."

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has backed farmers who are planning to protest over proposed changes to Agricultural Property Relief and Inheritance Tax. Ahead of mass lobbying events on November...

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