Farming families don't have spare cash'

LAST year people voted for change, and they got change for the worse.

- KEMI BADENOCH

They thought they might get Tony Blair or Gordon Brown's Labour. Instead, they got Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour with Keir Starmer at the helm.

Starmer is a wolf in sheep’s clothing — says one thing to get elected, then does another.

Labour promised to stand up for farmers when they wanted their votes but as soon as they got in power, they let Whitehall bureaucrats convince them to tax family farms.

When the Conservatives were in office, we had the same terrible ideas proposed to us by officials, and time and time again we said no.

We did so because we understand rural life and we respect it.

Labour doesn’t get it. To them, farmers are just numbers on a spreadsheet, not the backbone of Britain.

Labour's cruel farm tax changes are based on astounding ignorance. They think that because land is expensive, it means farmers are sitting on lots of cash in the bank. Far from it.

Nonsensical

Farming families do not have the cash to spare.

The tax is calculated on the sale value of their land, but most farmers do not want to sell.