‘Labour becoming the cruel party’ over tax changes, warns farmer baroness
1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘Labour becoming the cruel party’ over tax changes, warns farmer baroness

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Labour is “almost becoming the cruel party” over inheritance tax reforms impacting farmers, one of its peers has claimed. We are almost becoming the cruel party Baroness Mallalieu The president of the Countryside Alliance, Lady Mallalieu told The Daily Telegraph newspaper: “It has taken the Labour Party 14 years to win back the trust of the countryside after that last attack on hunting. “Since the last election we have more than 100 MPs in rural seats, but here we are making the same mistakes again.” In a phrase which echoes a description Theresa May once used of the Tories as the “nasty party”, Lady Mallalieu added: “We are almost becoming the cruel party.” Sir Tony Blair’s first Labour ministry is remembered among many in rural communities for the fox hunting ban, a measure the Countryside Alliance opposed. Speaking to the Telegraph, she said: “On the march, I heard there have been four suicides already among farmers and, for me, the most unpleasant side – and I don’t think the Government thought about this – is that they are saying to elderly farmers, make yourself die before March 2026 to save your family from losing their home.” On Friday, Sir Keir Starmer insisted his Government was supportive of farmers, as well as of pensioners, as he faced questions about the tax reforms and the decision to limit winter fuel payments to only the poorest pensioners.

History of this topic

Farming chief calls for pause on ‘disastrous’ tractor tax in latest blow to Starmer over controversial change
Trending News
1 week, 1 day ago
Farmers to target rural Labour MPs in new wave of tractor tax protests
2 weeks ago
Keir Starmer reveals the real reason for his ‘family farm tax’ in grilling by senior MPs
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Labour MP branded 'completely ignorant' for claiming it's 'quite hard to find a poor farmer' amid fresh protests over Rachel Reeves' tax raid
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Farm tax changes under fire in Parliament as angry farmers protest outside
4 weeks ago
Opposition growing to family farm tax ahead of major protest in London
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Farmers will fight 'for as long as it takes' to halt Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax raid, union president warns
1 month ago
Starmer may be ‘softening’ on Labour’s ‘tractor tax’, NFU president claims
1 month, 1 week ago
Reeves’s inheritance tax raid ‘hits farmers harder than tax avoiders’
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Why farmers are fretting across the world
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Independent readers left divided over Labour’s ‘tractor tax’ on inherited farms
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Reeves denies claims she is about to exempt over-80s from family farm tax
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Farmers should shut up and muck in – for the greater good
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The last thing the farmers needed was Clarkson and Farage in cosplay
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Labour is losing the PR battle over the ‘tractor tax’
1 month, 2 weeks ago
BBC's Victoria Derbyshire clashes with Labour minister as he urges farmers to 'find out how inheritance tax works' if they are 'anxious' about budget
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Angela Rayner refuses to rule out further increases to inheritance tax on farmers
1 month, 2 weeks ago
NFU chief hints farmers could take more extreme action if government ignores inheritance tax protest
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Government accused of ‘hammer blow’ to farmers as thousands protest in London
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Farmers protest in central London over tax changes
Top News
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Farmers protest in central London over tax changes
Top News
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Why have British farmers marched on UK’s Parliament?
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Farmers protest in central London over tax changes
Trending News
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Farmers protest in central London over tax changes
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The real threat to British farmers… and it isn’t the ‘tractor tax’
1 month, 2 weeks ago
More farmers seeking financial advice over inheritance tax changes, say experts
1 month, 2 weeks ago
UK farmers rally to oppose government's inheritance tax reforms
Trending News
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Farmers’ protest: Why are farm owners demonstrating over inheritance tax?
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Do you support the ‘tractor tax’ on inherited farms? Join The Independent Debate
1 month, 2 weeks ago
UK farmers plan to protest at Parliament over a tax hike they say will ruin family farms
1 month, 2 weeks ago
UK farmers plan to protest at Parliament over a tax hike they say will ruin family farms
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ailbhe Rea: Farmers Descend on Westminster
1 month, 2 weeks ago
British farmers protest against ‘tractor tax’ on inheritance
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Starmer warned Labour faces wipeout of rural MPs in farm tax backlash ahead of protest
1 month, 2 weeks ago
No 10 dodges row over Elon Musk’s claims UK is ‘going full Stalin’ with farmers
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Labour peer says Keir Starmer's inheritance tax raid on family farms 'smells of incompetence' and is hammering the party's rural support as ministers brace for London protest
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Rachel Reeves’s flawed inheritance tax for farmers demands a rethink
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Why are the farmers ploughing ahead with a major protest next week?
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Farmers’ ‘tractor tax’ protest move to new location because Trafalgar Square is not big enough
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Militant farmers to stage a 'national strike' against Rachel Reeves' inheritance tax raids - with meat and crops set to be withheld from supermarkets
Trending News
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Farmers may never trust Labour again after inheritance tax change, say Tories
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Farmers exaggerating impact of inheritance tax raid on land, Environment Secretary suggests
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Sainsbury's boss backs Britain's farmers as he warns Chancellor Rachel Reeves' inheritance tax raid threatens UK food security
Trending News
2 months ago
Labour's inheritance tax raid on family farms could turn them into 'net zero forests' used by foreign firms for carbon offsetting instead of food, landowners claim
Trending News
2 months ago
Rachel Reeves rejects alternative for ‘cruel’ family farm tax
2 months ago
Labour doesn’t understand the countryside, say farmers in warning ‘tractor tax’ will destroy village life
2 months ago
Labour accused of ‘traumatising’ farmers in inheritance tax raid amid warning over mental health crisis
Trending News
2 months ago
Furious farmers plot to withhold food to cause shortages on supermarket shelves and warn 'we're only four meals from anarchy' amid outrage at Rachel Reeves' inheritance tax raid
Trending News
2 months ago
Politics latest news: Tories would reverse Labour’s ‘cruel family farms tax’, says Badenoch
Trending News
2 months ago

Discover Related