Efra chair asks to meet Prime Minister urgently to discuss 'potential mitigations' to IHT reform

In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Carmichael said that ‘deep concern' is fuelling low confidence and morale levels in the agricultural and wider rural community and that he would like to meet with the PM urgently to discuss ‘potential mitigations'

Rachael Brown
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 Efra chair asks to meet Prime Minister urgently to discuss 'potential mitigations' to IHT reform

The Efra committee chair Alistair Carmichael has written to the Prime Minister highlighting a contrast in opinion between him and his Defra Secretary on the aim of the reforms to Agricultural Property...

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