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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Ross

‘I own a £2m farmhouse - Reeves’ mansion tax is nothing but punishment for being well-off’

Three decades ago, Christopher Broadbent bought an old farm worker’s two-bedroom cottage in the East Sussex countryside.

The founder of a consultancy firm carried out a “Damascene conversion” of the house, doubling its size, and bought 50 acres of farming land around it for a nature reserve and a glamping business.

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