Conservatives are calling on Labour to scrap the Family Farm and Business tax that will damage British Farming and Family Businesses. Dr Neil Hudson, MP for Epping Forest and Shadow DEFRA Minister, and the Shadow DEFRA team are leading the Conservative calls for a reversal on these senseless and heartless taxes.
Labour’s Family Farm and Business Tax is approaching, with the Budget giving Labour the chance to change course and stop this damaging tax.
With rising food prices, record farm closures, and plummeting farmer confidence, now is the time to support British farmers, not punish them with the Family Farm Tax.
The Conservatives have been campaigning to stop Labour’s Family Farm Tax and are calling on the Labour Government to do the right thing to support British farmers and axe the Family Farm and Business Tax.
Only the Conservatives are taking the threat to farmers and rural life seriously, and have committed to reversing Labour’s heartless Family Farm Tax if they do not scrap it.
Despite Labour previously promising to protect farmers, under Government proposals, more than 75 per cent of farms across the country will be hit by new inheritance tax laws.
They will be devastating for family farms and pose a serious risk to domestic food security and food prices. Labour and Keir Starmer do not have a plan to get a grip on the public finances, and are now punishing farmers because of their failures.
Dr Neil Hudson, MP for Epping Forest and Shadow DEFRA Minister, said:
“Food security is national security.
“Ahead of the Budget next week, we Conservatives are once again calling on the Labour Government to axe the Family Farm Tax and Business Tax, for the sake of food security and our rural and semi-rural communities.
“Labour’s political choice to target farmers is a cruel blow to the industry, and Labour must do the right thing and not implement the Family Farm Tax.”
Commenting, Shadow Secretary of State Victoria Atkins MP said:
“The Family Farm and Business Tax has been imposed by a Labour Government that has no understanding of rural life or the importance of family farms.
“Now Labour have a chance to accept that they have pushed British Farming into a food and farming emergency with their Family Farm and Business Tax and their other farming failures.
“Conservatives are on the side of rural communities and will axe Labour's Family Farm and Business Tax at the first opportunity. The farmers who work long hours to serve us food every day deserve better. Labour should U-turn and axe their Family Farm and Business Tax at the budget”.
