Labour’s cruel and unfair ‘tractor tax’ will end farming as we know it and raise NO money, Kemi Badenoch slams

CONSERVATIVE person Kemi Bandenoch has vowed to reverse the farmers’ taxation branding Labour’s raid “cruel and unfair.”

Warning the Government volition “destroy farming arsenic we cognize it successful this country” the apical Tory said the inheritance tax hike connected agrarian Britain volition not rise immoderate money.

And she told Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to "look again" astatine the argumentation oregon hazard becoming profoundly unpopular.

After addressing thousands for farmers connected Whitehall, the Tory person told The Sun the crowds stretched backmost arsenic acold arsenic the oculus could see.

She added: “There are batch of radical retired determination who are disquieted astir their future and they request to cognize we are looking aft them."

Quizzed however she would reverse the farmers taxation from opposition, Ms Badenoch said: “This argumentation is not going to rise immoderate money.

"So successful a year’s clip if they person not u-turned that’s going to beryllium patently obvious, and past they are going to person to look again.

“But if they cognize they’re becoming precise unpopular due to the fact that determination is an absorption that is going to bash thing precise different, that tin alteration things. And we are going to bash things differently.

“We volition reverse this, it is not a bully policy, it is cruel, it is unfair and it volition destruct farming arsenic we cognize it successful this country.”

The Met Police estimated much than 10,000 radical had joined the rally successful cardinal London soon earlier midday - with "more arriving".

Farmers person reacted with choler and dismay to the inheritance taxation changes for farming businesses, which bounds the existing 100% alleviation for farms to lone the archetypal £1 cardinal of combined cultivation and business property.

Some pass they volition person to merchantability disconnected onshore to conscionable the costs and are threatening to onslaught implicit the pressures they accidental they are being enactment nether by Government policy, portion determination are warnings implicit people's intelligence health.

Meanwhile, Mr Farage told farmers astatine the protest: “I tin consciousness myself that contiguous is not conscionable astir inheritance tax. It truly is farmers versus Starmer.”

But hitting backmost successful Rio, the PM said “vast majority” of farms volition beryllium “totally unaffected” by changes to inheritance tax.

Speaking to the BBC astatine the G20 summit, Sir Keir Starmer said that the Government had enactment wealth into farming astatine the Budget.

He added: “If you instrumentality a emblematic case, which is parents who privation to walk connected their workplace to 1 of their children … by the clip you’ve built successful the different income tax thresholds, it’s lone those with assets implicit £3 cardinal that would statesman to wage inheritance tax, and that’s wherefore I’m precise assured that the immense bulk of farms volition beryllium wholly unaffected.”