Tension, anger and frustration ‘so tangible’ among farmers after Budget – NFU

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The president of the National Farmers’ Union has said he is “absolutely baffled” at the Government’s decision to “double down” on inheritance tax on farms. But Mr Reed said that the plans outlined in Wednesday’s Budget are a “fair and balanced approach that protects family farms while also fixing the public services those same families rely on”. “They will be able to pass the family farm down to their children just as previous generations have always done.” After reading Mr Reed’s article, Mr Bradshaw said: “Looks like they’ve decided they’re going to double down, which I’m absolutely baffled by.” Mr Bradshaw said he has never seen the farming industry in the position it is in at the moment, and while this has built up over the last four or five years, he said: “Today the tension, the anger, the frustration, it is so, so tangible. “And I really hope that the Government can see that they’ve got this wrong.” The NFU said Britain’s farmers and growers will take part in a mass lobby of their MPs over the plans on November 19 and Mr Bradshaw said it is already “massively oversubscribed”.