Labour have failed to take the opportunity in Parliament to vote to stop the damaging Family Farm Tax, despite the numerous practical concerns raised by farmers of all types across the country.
Instead, they are choosing to put their party interest above the country, and force family farms to be sold off to pay inheritance tax bills which will not affordable without land sales.
The beneficiaries of Labour's policy will be private equity firms, and other companies who will buy the land for solar, carbon offsets and other environmental schemes. As s a result we will lose generations of farm knowledge, reduce the amount of land used for farm production, and in particular for tenant farmers who cannot sell land as they don't own the land, risk losing entire farm businesses.
This weakens our food security and betrays the promises Labour made to rural businesses at the election. It is not too late for Labour to comprise, such as to raise the tax threshold so fewer family farms a
