The future of dozens of farms and farmers, and hundreds of jobs, across the Brentwood and Ongar constituency was the focus of a major rally and parliamentary debate on Monday to show the vindictiveness of Labour’s Family Farm Tax.
Despite Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Environment Secretary Steve Reed previously promising to protect farmers, under Labour Government proposals, more than 75 per cent of farms across the country will be hit by new inheritance tax laws.
They will be devastating for family farms and pose a serious risk to domestic food security and food prices which is why the Conservative Party would reverse the Family Farm Tax.
And on Monday Labour MPs had the opportunity to back British farmers by speaking out against the Family Farm Tax.
The E-Petition Debate discussed the Family Farm Tax and gave all MPs, including Labour MPs, the chance to speak out against the Labour Government’s cruel plans. The debate was scheduled in Parliament after over 147,000 people signed a petition against the Family Farm Tax, one of the many petitions that have called for the tax's repeal.
Previously, the Conservative petition calling for the repeal of the Family Farm Tax received over 215,465 signatures and was delivered to the Labour Government by Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Victoria Atkins MP.
I believe Labour’s political choice to target farmers is a cruel blow to the industry and will affect workers and consumers across the country.
Despite tens of thousands of farmers descending on Westminster and hundreds of thousands signing petitions against the Family Farm Tax, Labour are intent on continuing this vindictive tax. But on Monday, all MPs, including Labour MPs, had the chance to speak out against Keir Starmer’s plans and help protect hundreds of thousands of farmers, their families and communities like those living and working in Brentwood and Ongar.
Labour have chosen to support the Family Farm Tax, betraying farmers across the country and I am sure people here and across the country will never forgive them if they destroy the farming industry as this tax will ultimately do.
