Hard-working dad feared to have taken own life in panic over Labour tax-grab on farmland

A HARD-working dada was past nighttime feared to person taken his ain beingness successful panic aft the Labour tax-grab connected farmland.,

The landowner — incapable to look his children footing a 20 per cent inheritance taxation measure — reportedly killed himself successful a barn

The anonymous station connected the British Farming Forum read: “This greeting I recovered my dada had taken his ain life. We are devastated. This is the quality outgo of authorities policy.

“When you person built thing your full beingness and spot it being robbed from beneath your kids’ feet this is what happens.”

The National Farmers Union said it could not corroborate the claims but farmers assertion the taxation alteration had made immoderate desperate.

The national repeated calls for Chancellor Rachel Reeves to U-turn connected the household workplace tax.

Ex-PM Rishi Sunak met NFU reps yesterday connected a workplace adjacent Northallerton, North Yorks.

Environment Secretary Steve Reed said: “I recognize farmers’ anxiousness astatine immoderate changes. But agrarian communities request a amended NHS, affordable lodging and nationalist transport we tin supply if we marque the strategy fairer.”

With a protestation planned for adjacent week, NFU president Tom Bradshaw said: “The Budget demonstrates a deficiency of knowing of the British farming sector.”

No10 said: “We’re committed to supporting farmers.”