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Farmers claim ‘food and environment not important to government’ in fresh tractor tax protests across UK

Farmers are gathering at protests across the UK on Saturday as they step up their campaign against the tax raid

The Independent UK

Farmers gather across the UK in new protests over inheritance tax reforms

Rachel Hallos, a farmer and vice president of the National Farmers Union, warned the tax changes will ‘decimate’ the country’s agricultural sector.

Evening Standard

‘Breaking point’ – Farmers to stage new protests over inheritance tax reforms

Farmers say they want to thank the British public for their support and warn of the impact of the planned reforms.

Evening Standard

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Farmers to stage fresh protests over inheritance tax reforms

The NFU has handed in a petition to 10 Downing Street signed by more than 270,000 members of the public.

Evening Standard

Farmers welcome supermarkets’ backing in fight against inheritance tax changes

Tesco and Lidl are among the retailers voicing concerns over the policy, which will end the 100% exemption from inheritance tax on wealthier farms.

The Independent UK

Reeves’s tractor tax plan in disarray as supermarket giants hit out at chancellor

Three of Britain’s biggest retailers, Tesco, Lidl and the Co-Op, join calls for halt to inheritance tax raid as Labour chancellor tries to drum up business investment in the UK at World Economic Forum in Davos

The Independent UK

Farming chief calls for pause on ‘disastrous’ tractor tax in latest blow to Starmer over controversial change

National Farmers’ Union president intervenes in row again to say he’s never seen such ‘anger, despair and sense of betrayal’

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‘Disastrous’ farm inheritance tax changes makes thriving sector impossible – NFU

The union’s boss called for a pause for consultation on the policy to enable the sector to deliver food security and environmental goals.

Evening Standard

Fresh tractor tax blow for Starmer as Labour could lose three quarters of rural seats, poll suggests

The National Farmers Union warns Sir Keir Starmer he has ‘gravely underestimated the impact’ of his family farm tax raid as a poll suggests Labour could be hit hard by seat losses if a general election was held today

The Independent UK

Starmer reveals the real reason for his family farm tax - not to hit super wealthy death duty dodgers

The NFU have said that the prime minister’s admission to the Commons liaison committee proves the family farm tax was ‘an indiscriminate revenue-raising measure with no thought given to who it impacts’

The Independent UK

Starmer defends farm tax in face of questions from senior MPs

Sir Keir Starmer was questioned about the impact of the inheritance tax change during a Liaison Committee appearance.

Evening Standard

‘Tractor tax’ blow to Starmer as Labour expert calls for government U-turn

Leading figure – whose analysis Starmer used to defend controversial policy – calls for inheritance tax threshold on farmers to be increased from £1m to £20m

The Independent UK

Farmers’ protest live: NFU leader fights back tears as tractors block Westminster over inheritance tax rise

Hundreds of farmers blocked Whitehall outside Parliament as Sir Keir Starmer also answered prime minister’s questions on the sensitive issue

The Independent UK

'We must rally': Scottish farmers to protest amid inheritance tax row

SCOTLAND'S national farmers union (NFU) has called on all those who want a "thriving rural economy in Scotland" to rally…

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Starmer may be ‘softening’ on Labour’s ‘tractor tax’, NFU president claims

After a meeting in No10 with Keir Starmer on Monday, NFU president Tom Bradshaw said there was ‘a more conciliatory tone’ but farmers keep up the presure with a protest in Dover

The Independent UK

Starmer held private meeting with NFU boss for ‘grown-up’ inheritance tax talks

Downing Street described the Monday night meeting as “constructive”.

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves standing firm against U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers

Chancellor understood to be determined to keep policy despite Treasury analysing ways to soften impact

Al Jazeera

Why have British farmers marched on UK’s Parliament?

British farmers say they will be forced to sell farms under inheritance tax reforms.

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The Independent UK

‘A huge kick in the teeth’: On the NFU battle bus as furious farmers come face-to-face with MPs over tax raid

At 5.30am, as farmers climbed aboard an NFU bus in Cirencester, Alex Ross joined them in the biggest battle for the industry in years

The Independent UK

Government accused of ‘hammer blow’ to farmers as thousands protest in London

Farmers flocked to Whitehall to protest against changes to inheritance tax and other measures in last month’s Budget.

Evening Standard

Changes to farming inheritance tax – what are the details?

The Treasury says around 500 estates a year will be affected by the changes.

The Independent UK

NFU chief hints farmers could take more extreme action if government ignores inheritance tax protest

More than 10,000 farmers descended on Westminster on Tuesday to urge the government to backtrack on the levy

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Labour may defeat the farmers, but at a cost

It is the post-Budget battle the Government did not necessarily anticipate: Labour versus the farmers. The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) held a mass lobby of MPs this morning, calling on their representatives to oppose the imposition of inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million. That is not all.…

Evening Standard

Reeves urged to meet farmers over inheritance tax change as protest kicks off

Celebrities including Jeremy Clarkson, who warns the policy is a ‘blunderbuss’ that has hit farmers, joined a rally in Whitehall.

Evening Standard

Cabinet minister slams rich for 'farmland tax dodge' as thousands of farmers protest in London

But NFU chief Tom Bradshaw accuses Environment Secretary Steve Reed of treating farmers with ‘contempt’

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