Sir Keir Starmer faces a major hurdle to his plan to raid British farmers for inheritance tax as MPs prepare to vote on a Conservative opposition motion later today.
The Prime Minister, who is hoping to force farmers to pay 20 per cent inheritance tax on the value of their farm above £1million, will face the non-binding challenge just weeks after tractors descended on Whitehall.
After pushing the opposition day motion, Shadow Environment Secretary Victoria Atkins said: “Labour’s vindictive family farm tax threatens to destroy British farming as we know it.
“Labour MPs have a choice to make. Will they vote to axe the tax, and save the family farm? Or will they turn their backs on rural communities and back the Budget of broken promises?
“Thousands of farmers descended on Westminster to try and make the Government listen. So far, they’ve refused. Labour MPs now have a chance to back British farming.”
National Farmers’ Union chief Tom Bradshaw also claimed the group were taking the “lid off the pressure cooker” given a number of rural Labour MPs have since spoken out against Starmer’s plan.
The motion also comes just days after Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP Henry Tufnell came under fire over his family’s decision to transfer land to his brother.
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Sue Gray poised for peerage as Starmer stuffs allies into House of Lords
Sir Keir Starmer’s ex-chief of staff Sue Gray has been tipped to enter the House of Lords as part of the Prime Minister’s plan to stuff allies into the upper chamber.
The Financial Times has reported that Gray will accompany a number of ex-Labour MPs who stood down to “make way for new party talent” on July 4.
They include Lyn Brown, Julie Elliott and Kevin Brennan.
