Welsh Labour MP stands up for elderly farmers over family farm tax

Steve Witherden MP said many elderly farmers were ‘too late in life' to plan for the proposed changes to Inheritance Tax

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Stephen Witherden MP

The Labour MP for Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr, Steve Witherden, has given an impassioned plea to the Treasury to look at exemptions for elderly farmers who are ‘too late in life' to plan for the proposed...

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