Zeichner defends Budget APR changes while claiming to understand 'farmers' anxieties'

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Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner says he understand farmers' anxiety around the Budget reforms
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Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner says he understand farmers' anxiety around the Budget reforms

Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner said the Government completely understood ‘farmers' anxieties' but insisted the Labour Party's only aim was to make the tax system ‘fairer'. Speaking in response to...

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