Reeves is 'blind' to plight of farmers

LABOUR remains “deaf, blind and indifferent” to the economic damage caused by Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid, farmers claim.

- By Steph Spyro

The Treasury’s family farm tax legislation, which is accompanied by an impact assessment, said “no significant macroeconomic impacts” will be felt.

But Victoria Vyvyan, president of the Country Land and Business Association, said: “The CLA has made clear, and costed, the consequences of this ideological folly - the loss of jobs, the reduction in gross value added.