Conservative MPs Battle Inheritance Tax Affecting 75% of Farms

Conservatives Will Always Support Our Local Farmers

Conservative MPs voted against the Family Farm Tax that Labour are imposing on farming 

communities as part of their campaign to scrap the tax.

Despite Labour previously promising to protect farmers, under 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. Labour and Keir Starmer do not have a plan to get a grip on the public finances, and are now punishing farmers because of their failures. 

Conservatives across the United Kingdom will continue to campaign to get Labour to scrap the 

Family Farm and Business tax that will damage British Farming and Family Businesses.

Spokesperson for Southport Conservatives,

Mike Prendergast, says Labour’s political choice to target farmers is a cruel blow to the industry and that Labour must do the right thing and not implement the Family Farm Tax.

Commenting, Shadow Secretary of State Victoria Atkins said:

“The Family Farm and Business Tax has been imposed by a Labour Government that has no 

understanding of rural life or the importance of family farms. We voted to scrap this tax and will 

continue to campaign to stop it.”

“Labour have voted to push British Farming into a food and farming emergency with their Family 

Farm and Business Tax and their other farming failures. They should be ashamed they did not join us to stop vote against the Family Farm and Business Tax.”

“Conservatives are on the side of rural communities and will axe Labour's Family Farm and Business Tax at the first opportunity. The farmers who work long hours to serve us food every day deserve better. The Conservatives will scrap this cruel tax when we are re-elected to government”.

Commenting, Mike Prendergast, said:

“Across our rural villages in Banks, Mere Brow, Hesketh Bank, Tarleton and Rufford farmers will be worried about their future. It’s Conservatives in our Southport and the Northern Parishes who are standing up for local farmers, unlike our current Labour MP who voted against scrapping the tax.”

“Labour must u-turn so the hundreds of farmers across our area and around the country can continue to produce the food we eat three times a day.”

“In the Northern Parishes we have some of the best grade one agricultural land in the country, with world class producers who employ many local people.”

“I am sure people here and across the country will never forgive Labour if they destroy the farming 

industry as this tax will ultimately do” he added.