Treasury

With six Prime Ministers in the last decade farmers give their verdict on Sir Keir Starmer and what they want from the new government

Tom Bradshaw said if the new government looks at IHT again or wider capital taxation, it does so with 'open eyes', knowing the 'strength of feeling' amongst farmers

Following the Government's action to lower the cost of red diesel for farmers by slashing fuel duty, the MPs believe there is a strong case for building on that action by looking carefully at fertiliser tariffs

This week from the Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

Government ministers have considered the prospect of altering its current Inheritance Tax proposals, according to the FOI, despite publicly saying that the policy has been 'set in stone' since the last Autumn Budget

Farmers Guardian’s Tom Ryder, hailing from a Cumbria-based family with a history in pedigree livestock breeding, reflects on how the Government’s proposed Inheritance Tax reforms risk overlooking the human realities behind the numbers

Cross-party rural MPs issue heartfelt appeal for the Government to meet farmers and reconsider its planned agricultural tax changes

Failure by police, Environment Agency and wider government all named and shamed following inquiry

Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart says Labour’s proposals risk tearing apart the ‘very fabric of rural communities’

MPs brand family farm tax ‘disgraceful’, saying it reflects Labour’s ‘deep disconnect’ from rural community