Reform UK Conference: Gov have 'clobbered' farmers with Inheritance Tax changes

Is Labour pushing farmers into the hands of Nigel Farage and Reform UK with IHT changes?

Chris Brayford
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Dr David Bull, chair of Reform, said: "These [farmers] are the very people we rely on to feed us. The people who give us security of food in an increasingly unstable world. Not one member of the cabinet understands farmers. Their insane ideological imposition of Inheritance Tax on farms worth over £1m sounds the death knell for the custodians of our countryside."
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Dr David Bull, chair of Reform, said: "These [farmers] are the very people we rely on to feed us. The people who give us security of food in an increasingly unstable world. Not one member of the cabinet understands farmers. Their insane ideological imposition of Inheritance Tax on farms worth over £1m sounds the death knell for the custodians of our countryside."

Nigel Farage and Reform UK have claimed that they are the only party which can unite the country, and added that farmers have been victims of Labour's 'attack' on the sector since winning the General Election...

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