Sir Keir Starmer has said he totally disagrees with suggestions by one of Tony Blair’s ex-advisers that the Government should do battle with farmers in the way Margaret Thatcher did with striking miners.
Former political adviser John McTernan claimed small family farms were an “industry we could do without” and signalled he was personally in favour of ministers engaging in a confrontation with farmers who plan to protest about changes to inheritance tax (IHT) relief.
