The Government is eyeing up a further tax raid on farmers under its economic plan of “Starmerism”, the Conservatives have claimed.Shadow Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart used Prime Minister’s Questions to ask the Government to rule out further increases to inheritance tax or changes to agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR) during the current Parliament.
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00:00We've already talked about Ukraine, Mr Speaker.
00:04It was Ukraine and Covid that drove up inflation.
00:08This government is doing it to the British people.
00:10High tax, high inflation, low growth, low reform.
00:15There's a word for that, Mr Speaker, it's starmarism.
00:20Yesterday, like many honourable members on this side of the House,
00:24I spoke to farmers from across the United Kingdom.
00:28Some of them families who've farmed their land for centuries.
00:31Elderly men in tears, children worried about their parents,
00:37all of them worried that their way of life is about to be destroyed.
00:41What would the Right Honourable Lady like to say to them?
00:45Well first of all, Mr Speaker, we are absolutely committed to our British farmers.
00:52And that's why we've committed £5 billion to the farming budget over the next two years.
01:04That's the largest ever amount for sustainable food production in the UK.
01:10And it's alongside £60 million, Mr Speaker, to support those affected by extreme wet weather
01:16and over £200 million to tackle disease outbreaks.
01:20His party couldn't even get the money out the door for farmers,
01:24failing to spend over £300 million on farming budgets.
01:28The farmers know they ruined it for them and that's why we're in government and they're not.