Politics

Secretary of State Steve Reed said some landowners and farms will pay more inheritance tax as a result of the changes, but he said the Government wanted to 'support family farms'

Secretary of State Steve Reed said the roadmap would be focused on making farming and food production 'more profitable in the decades to come', and farmers will tell Government what they need to make a 'success of this vital transition'

Steve Reed told Farmers Guardian he was not concerned about a farmers’ strike following the London protests

Baroness Rock has urged the Government to think again, stating it was not too late to change

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

Secretary of State Steve Reed said: "Assuming these projections from HMRC validated by Office for Budget Responsibility [OBR] and Institute for Fiscal Studies [IFS] are correct, than many of them, probably happily are wrong"

Tenant Farmers Association said they had asked the Treasury if it knew how many APR/BPR claims were made from landlords with multiple tenancies, and was told it could not provide the data

Over 1,500 farmers sent out a clear message to their MPs at the NFU rally, demanding the family farm tax to be stopped and properly consulted on

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said the situation around Inheritance Tax changes will be only be resolved by sitting down with the Chancellor Rachel Reeves ‘but at the moment she is refusing to meet with us'

After weeks of planning farmers from across the country descended on London on Tuesday November 19, to oppose the Government’s new Inheritance Tax rules