By GB News (Politics) | Created at 2024-12-04 08:00:41 | Updated at 2024-12-04 19:05:37
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Sir Keir Starmer faces a major hurdle to his plan to raid British farmers for inheritance tax as MPs prepare to vote on a Conservative opposition motion later today.
The Prime Minister, who is hoping to force farmers to pay 20 per cent inheritance tax on the value of their farm above £1million, will face the non-binding challenge just weeks after tractors descended on Whitehall.
After pushing the opposition day motion, Shadow Environment Secretary Victoria Atkins said: “Labour’s vindictive family farm tax threatens to destroy British farming as we know it.
“Labour MPs have a choice to make. Will they vote to axe the tax, and save the family farm? Or will they turn their backs on rural communities and back the Budget of broken promises?
“Thousands of farmers descended on Westminster to try and make the Government listen. So far, they’ve refused. Labour MPs now have a chance to back British farming.”
National Farmers' Union chief Tom Bradshaw also claimed the group were taking the "lid off the pressure cooker" given a number of rural Labour MPs have since spoken out against Starmer's plan.
The motion also comes just days after Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP Henry Tufnell came under fire over his family's decision to transfer land to his brother.
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'Labour doesn't care about our rural communities.'
James Price doesn't believe the inheritance tax raid will be reversed because the Labour Party want to 'punish' our rural communities. pic.twitter.com/jDdRP7pvg2
Former No11 aide James Price has accused Labour of wanting to "punish" farmers ahead of today's motion on Sir Keir Starmer's inheritance tax raid.
Speaking to GB News, Price said: "I think the problem is that the numbers for Labour clearly don't stack up - the Treasury have made a mistake her, the Department for Environment have made a mistake here ... In any just world they'd do a big reversal on this.
"They're not going to do it. And why's that? I think it's because they genuinely want to punish rural communities."
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