![During the Liaison Committee, Alistair Carmichael asked the Prime Minister: "It is not just the president of the NFU, you have heard it from Cat Smith, you have heard it from my Select [Efra] Committee, you have heard it from the Welsh Affairs Committee, you have heard it from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. These are all Select Committees incidentally that have majorities from the Labour Party and they have all produced unanimous reports calling for this to be paused and rethought. You do not have to listen to me, you do not even have to listen to the farmers out there and you don't listen to the president of the NFU, but why do you not listen to your own party colleagues?"](https://image.chitra.live/api/v1/wps/33937ca/a8421e6f-b9e9-40ed-a222-1856e3e90dac/9/starmer-liaison-committee-2-679x419.jpeg "During the Liaison Committee, Alistair Carmichael asked the Prime Minister: \"It is not just the president of the NFU, you have heard it from Cat Smith, you have heard it from my Select [Efra] Committee, you have heard it from the Welsh Affairs Committee, you have heard it from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. These are all Select Committees incidentally that have majorities from the Labour Party and they have all produced unanimous reports calling for this to be paused and rethought. You do not have to listen to me, you do not even have to listen to the farmers out there and you don't listen to the president of the NFU, but why do you not listen to your own party colleagues?\"")
During the Liaison Committee, Alistair Carmichael asked the Prime Minister: "It is not just the president of the NFU, you have heard it from Cat Smith, you have heard it from my Select [Efra] Committee, you have heard it from the Welsh Affairs Committee, you have heard it from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. These are all Select Committees incidentally that have majorities from the Labour Party and they have all produced unanimous reports calling for this to be paused and rethought. You do not have to listen to me, you do not even have to listen to the farmers out there and you don't listen to the president of the NFU, but why do you not listen to your own party colleagues?"
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has shut down any suggestion that the Government is willing to reconsider and rethink its approach to reforming Inheritance Tax, despite receiving pleas from Labour Party...
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