Keir Starmer defends inheritance tax change amid farmers’ outrage

PM ‘absolutely confident’ that ‘vast majority’ of farms will be exempt as union prepares protests in LondonKeir Starmer has vehemently defended the imposition of inheritance tax on farms, as a new analysis suggested farmers are being increasingly squeezed out of the market for agricultural land by wealthy investors.Amid a battle between the government and the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) over what proportion of farms could be affected by the change, announced in la