Fury as Britain sends £536million a year to support FOREIGN farmers in ‘slap in face’ to UK agriculture

SIR Keir Starmer sparked fury yesterday arsenic it emerged Britain splurges millions of pounds supporting overseas farms.

More than £536m of the UK’s planetary assistance fund is spent connected agriculture successful Africa, Asia and South America.

One scheme, worthy much than £16m, helps caller farmers in Rwanda make tea, the Express revealed.

But the PM has inactive refused to backmost down connected Labour’s hated cultivation inheritance tax raid, which manufacture experts accidental volition hitch retired the British household farm.

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick blasted Sir Keir for putting overseas workers earlier section food-producers.

He said: “That volition consciousness similar a slap successful the look for galore British farmers.

“It’s not excessively precocious for Starmer to listen, admit he’s made a large mistake, and really support a committedness helium made astatine the election.”

Tory MP Greg Smith added: “It is beyond content they effort to assertion to beryllium connected the broadside of British farmers, whilst simultaneously introducing the cruel Family Farm Tax, bumping up the outgo of fertiliser and present straight backing overseas farmers.”

On Friday Sir Keir insisted the authorities is “for farmers” – but added helium understands “concerns” astir the inheritance taxation hike.

The PM told BBC Radio Lincolnshire: “There aren’t galore farms twelvemonth connected twelvemonth that are sold successful excess of the £3m threshold, and truthful that threshold is high.

“The immense bulk of farmers won’t beryllium affected.”