Labour's IHT plans risk national security, says US ag chief

Brooke Rollins, US Agriculture Secretary, brands the family farm tax a 'problem', as she warns farms will close as a result

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US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has hit out at Keir Starmer's family farm tax
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US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has hit out at Keir Starmer's family farm tax

Labour's family farm tax has been branded a ‘threat to national' security by the US Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins. Speaking to GB News reporters as part of her visit to England following...

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