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'Heartbreaking' concerns from FG's tenant farmers survey raised in House of Lords

Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Livermore, said while he understood the 鈥榮trength of feeling', he did 'not necessarily accept' the survey's conclusions

Rachael Brown
Chief Reporter
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Baroness Kate Rock in IHT debate
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Baroness Kate Rock in IHT debate

The author of the Rock Review into the tenanted agricultural sector said she had received 鈥榤any heartbreaking messages' from tenant farmers who told her they could not go on and feared eviction in light...

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