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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Richard Wheeler

Atkins urges Labour MPs to support Tory efforts to ‘axe the family farm tax’

Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins moved the Tory motion in the Commons (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Archive)

Labour MPs have been urged to support calls to “axe the family farm tax”, as Chancellor Rachel Reeves was accused of “cock-eyed accounting” over the policy.

Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins made the plea as she moved a Tory motion warning that the changes could “lead to the end of family farming as it has been known for many generations” in the UK.

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