Call to exempt 'working farms' from inheritance tax
Briefly

"Farmers are struggling, often with their mental health. The isolation you feel when you are farming, and you have farmed a valley, let's say, for generations and your family have, and you might be the one who ends up losing the family farm, it's utterly, utterly devastating."
"The government could not justify leaving the situation unchanged due to the urgent need to repair the public finances. But he argued Labour were committed to supporting the UK's farmers, pointing to a £5bn investment in farming and land management in England over the next two years announced in the Budget."
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