Labour should U-turn on ‘vindictive’ farm tax following winter gas clim | Politics | News | EUROtoday

Labour’s U-turn on Winter Fuel is welcome, and lengthy overdue – now they need to axe the Family Farm Tax. Since they snatched away assist from thousands and thousands of weak pensioners, the Conservative Party, led by Kemi Badenoch, has been campaigning tirelessly to assist weak pensioners and proper this injustice.

We stood shoulder to shoulder with the Daily Express and its readers within the paper’s nice campaign to see this horrible resolution overturned. And due to our mixed efforts over the previous 10 months, the Labour authorities has been pressured right into a humiliating climb down.

We will proceed to carry Labour to account to make sure that they set out correct, and totally funded, proposals to make sure weak pensioners not have to decide on between heating and consuming.

But we is not going to cease there, as Labour continues to ram by way of one other injustice.

Keir Starmer & Rachel Reeves’ resolution to impose the Family Farms Tax within the Autumn Budget flies within the face of the proof we now have gathered throughout the UK concerning the risk it poses to British farming.

This vindictive measure, borne out of left-wing ideology, has been devastating. Asset-rich however cash-poor farmers up and down the nation have warned that they’ll face large tax payments for merely farming the land that their ancestors farmed earlier than them.

This tax is forcing them to make unattainable selections – promoting their household house and land which their household have nurtured for generations, and shedding the abilities, careers, and lifestyle that they wish to go on to their kids.

The emotional toll is severe: a Coroner has reported just lately {that a} farmer took his personal life for concern that Labour’s inheritance tax adjustments would result in the lack of his household’s farm.

Tragically, we all know that others have accomplished the identical. Still, the Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, refuses to come clean with the results of his coverage.

This is not only a risk to our rural communities, and their lifestyle, however a threat to this nation as a complete. Without our farms, there might be no meals safety, and there might be no nationwide safety with out our meals safety.

But these pleas proceed to fall on deaf ears, as City Steve hides in Whitehall and Rachel Reeves shamefully doubles down on her misguided and ideologically-driven resolution.

However, this week’s Winter Fuel U-turn has proven us that there’s a path to equity for farming households. Under strain, this authorities will buckle.

With dedication and grit, we are going to proceed our combat. The Conservatives is not going to cease campaigning: we would like Labour to scrap their vindictive coverage, but when they don’t, we are going to axe the Family Farm Tax when again in authorities.

We are proud figuring out that we’ll be joined in that combat by the Daily Express and its readers each step of the best way.