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As a rural MP I do know what farming means – each for British meals safety, and for our rural lifestyle.Farming is etched into our panorama and historical past. But British farming gained’t at all times exist just because it at all times has.

Every 12 months it appears to get more durable, and individuals who have farmed their entire lives are deciding to pack it in. The very last item our British farmers wanted was a Labour authorities seemingly ideologically against farming and with no thought the place our meals comes from. The Family Farm Tax tells us all we have to learn about Labour’s method to farming.

As Conservative Party chief I’ve made certain we’ve fought it each step of the way in which. We rallied, we marched, and we pressured votes towards it in Parliament.

And we did this as a result of we perceive that farming isn’t a job, it’s a lifestyle. It’s a vocation handed down by way of generations.

Farmers pour their coronary heart and soul into their farms and Labour simply don’t get it.

We are the one get together with a fully-funded plan to reverse the Family Farm Tax.

We can do that as a result of we’ve set out £47 billion of financial savings and I’ve a Golden Economic Rule, by way of which each and every pound saved shall be cut up between slicing the deficit and slicing taxes or funding key priorities like abolishing the Family Farm Tax.

I do know that successive Conservative governments didn’t at all times get it proper, however I’m placing financial development and productiveness on the centre of Conservative Party coverage, and meaning guaranteeing higher productiveness and profitability for farmers too.

We need farmers to spend money on new methods of manufacturing meals. We need our farmers to get on with doing what they do greatest – unburdened by folks with clipboards.

But they aren’t going to make that funding with out certainty or wrapped in pink tape.

And they definitely aren’t going to try this whereas having to place cash away to pay the Family Farm Tax.

My farming rescue package deal has three key parts.

The first is slashing pink tape.

Regulation has morphed right into a maze that blocks flexibility, development, and common sense decision-making. Farmers really feel it’s designed to catch them out.

So, we’ll evaluation each certainly one of Defra’s 34 – sure 34! – arms-length our bodies. And we’ll reduce the regulators that hinder rural communities.

The second half is making gasoline cheaper.

The UK pays 4 occasions what companies within the US are paying for electrical energy. UK farmers merely can’t compete on value.

Net Zero dogma has meant the UK is deindustrialising. But by way of our Cheap Power Plan we’re going to convey down payments by axing the Carbon Tax, scrapping wind and photo voltaic subsidies, changing the Climate Change Act and drilling within the North Sea.

The closing half is getting severe about rural crime.

More and extra farmers are waking as much as stolen tractors, stripped autos, and instruments taken straight out of vans and barns. I’ve met farmers pushed to breaking level by repeated theft.

Courts deal with it as a minor offence. Stolen items are brazenly offered at automobile boot gross sales and on-line. Criminals know they gained’t face penalties.

Our plan is evident: more durable sentencing for software and agricultural car theft, create Rural Crime Taskforces throughout the nation, and shut down the resale markets that make this crime worthwhile.

The authorities can’t management the climate, however it could possibly assist in some small methods. Labour are clobbering our countryside, my rescue plan will do the other.

Protect farmers, maintain their payments down, and get out of the way in which to verify they’re free to get on with doing what they do greatest: producing the meals this nation depends on.

The Conservatives consider in British farming. We will at all times again our farmers. And we’ll defend the countryside that feeds our nation and makes Britain what it’s.