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Labour are waging struggle on the countryside. As Rachel Reeves was asserting greater taxes to pay for greater advantages in her Budget of damaged guarantees final week, farmers have been in Whitehall protesting, as soon as once more, in opposition to Labour’s disastrous farming insurance policies.

The Family Farm and Family Business Taxes, which is able to make it inconceivable for a lot of farmers and small companies to go on their farms and companies to their youngsters, spell catastrophe for our rural communities and danger elevating meals costs even greater. By imposing inheritance tax on asset-rich however cash-poor households, Labour will pressure farmers to promote the farms handed down by their dad and mom and grandparents merely to pay the Government’s advantages invoice. These households face dropping their lifestyle, their properties and their futures.

With this hapless Government so susceptible to U-turns, you might need anticipated a retreat from this terrible coverage by now, given the reasoned and well-argued opposition from farmers and Conservatives. But no – Labour suspended one in all their MPs this week for voting in opposition to this vindictive tax.

Dozens of Labour MPs abstained, making clear their discomfort about taxing the loss of life of the folks we depend on to place meals on our tables. But sadly, Labour’s entrance bench just isn’t listening.

This assault on the countryside doesn’t cease there. Last yr’s nationwide insurance coverage hike, the minimal wage improve, and a plethora of extra taxes are already inflicting report farm closures and are contributing to meals worth inflation.

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill piles on additional burdens by making it tougher to make use of the seasonal staff many farms depend on, in addition to forcing unionisation onto completely sound current working relationships.

Labour have additionally scrapped the Rural Services Delivery Grant, launched by the Conservatives to make sure distant areas acquired the help they wanted. Removing this significant lifeline will depart important providers underfunded.

And Labour is obsessive about concreting over our inexperienced and nice land. On the east coast, we’re in a battle to halt the industrialisation of prime agricultural and undeveloped land with pylons, photo voltaic vegetation, wind generators and large substations, together with in my very own Lincolnshire constituency. Labour’s Net Zero obsession just isn’t solely risking our meals safety however is including to farmers’ prices, with hovering power prices now 4 occasions greater than these within the US. The Government’s inconceivable plan for “Clean Power” by 2030 is being prioritised over the livelihoods of native folks.

And in the meantime, the harm to the cautious stability of nature – our wildlife, bushes, soil, water, and air – is rarely talked about by this authorities. They are overseeing a shameful reversal of nature commitments, all within the identify of Net Zero.

As a constituent mentioned to me lately, “Why has this government got it in for the countryside?” The reply is that this city-dwelling, socialist authorities doesn’t care and doesn’t need to perceive.

The Conservatives, nevertheless, do care and do perceive. We have led the marketing campaign in Parliament to axe the Family Farm and Business Taxes. We will all the time arise for rural folks. We know the way onerous farmers work to feed us and the challenges folks within the countryside face.

We will axe Labour’s vindictive Family Farm and Family Business Taxes and assist defend farming from era to era.

And we need to do extra.

Rural communities have instructed us they want much less purple tape and extra freedom of their lives. For instance, Defra has 34 arms-length our bodies, so we’ll overview each one and rein within the ones that get in the best way of rural communities.

We can even get gasoline prices down, serving to farmers and residents who’re combating hovering power payments. Through our Cheap Power Plan, we’ll reduce power payments by axing the Carbon Tax, scrapping wind and photo voltaic subsidies, changing the Climate Change Act, and selling new North Sea drilling.

And we’ll make rural communities safer by tackling rural crime.

Stolen tractors, stolen instruments and stripped autos are a scandal – but courts usually deal with these circumstances as minor offences. So, we’ll guarantee more durable sentencing for instrument and agricultural automobile theft, create Rural Crime Taskforces to clamp down on offenders, and shut down the markets criminals use to revenue.

Together, these measures will assist restore satisfaction in our countryside and help the companies that hold it transferring.

The Conservative group underneath Kemi Badenoch know {that a} stronger countryside makes a stronger nation. We care and we’ll all the time arise for rural communities.