As farmers prepare to protest against the budget’s new farm tax, which they say will permanently destroy the family farm in the UK, More in Common has done some research on the public’s attitudes towards the tax. Reeves reversed Labour’s pre-election promise and got rid of Agricultural Property Relief on Inheritance Tax, adding instead 50% relief on assets worth over £1 million…
In polling of 2,007 Brits conducted for the Conservative Rural Forum, 57% agree with the statement: “When a farmer passes their farm to the next generation, they should be not be required to pay inheritance tax on their farms.” Only a measly 24% think farms should be subject to IHT…
Interestingly there is no support for taxing farmers among the young either. In the 18-24 age group 28% think farmers should be taxed on their parents’ death compared to 50% who think they shouldn’t. How about them apples?
Hilariously a higher proportion of Labour voters disagrees with Reeves’ tax grab than agrees at 44% to 41%. Reform and Tory voters of course overwhelmingly reject the tax at a rate of around 75%. Labour may reap what it’s sown with this one…
Sir Stammer was clearly put off by the feisty new Tory leader in their first PMQs. When Kemi pushed on the bombshell budget, Starmer attempted to defend the extreme measures needed to “clear up the Tories’ mess”. Though his boast of pay rises for “working people” fell a little flat when he tripped over his own tongue, instead saying the budget will deliver:
“A tax rise..a pay rise for working people.”
Freudian slip, much?
Kemi has used her very first question as Tory leader at PMQs to lay into David Lammy for his previous heartfelt comments about Trump. Badenoch gave Keir the opportunity to apologise on Lammy’s behalf…
“The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary met him in September. Did the Foreign Secretary take that opportunity to apologise for making derogatory and scatological references including and I quote: ‘Trump is not only a woman hating Neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath, he is also a profound threat to the international order’? And if he did not apologise will the Prime Minister do so now on his behalf?
Stamer refused and the two traded blows on “student politics.” Lammy was left looking red-faced. Start as you mean to go on…
Pollsters are renowned for getting it wrong over and over again, not least in the latest US election. Though JL Partners founder James Johnson has outdone outdone himself with his latest blunder, writing in Conservative Home today that the US result means “We are not set for the first Black President of the United States”. Eh?
Obama might be a bit miffed by that. No wonder Theresa May was a disaster with him as an adviser…
- Caroline Dinenage (Con)
- Jacob Collier (Lab)
- Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- George Freeman (Con)
- Alex Baker (Con)
- Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Edward Leigh (Con)
- Mary Glindon (Lab)
- Phil Brickell (Lab)
- Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Llinos Medi (Cymru)
- Victoria Collins (LibDem)
- Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Just Stop Oil have whipped out the orange paint in protest at Trump’s decisive election win. A student and a 72-year-old sprayed the side wall at which point most of the paint slid into the pond below. Is that it?
They say “this morning the world wakes to find it has slipped further into fascism as well as climate breakdown. Trump’s win puts the lives of ordinary people at risk, everywhere.“ Climate crazies did well to divert votes to Trump…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”
