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Northamptonshire farmer warns PM Inheritance Tax threatens UK food security

Radmore Farm鈥檚 Ben Aveling has urged the Prime Minister to rethink plans for Inheritance Tax and said the countryside must remain in the hands of family farmers, not 鈥榤assive corporations鈥�

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Ben Aveling, Radmore Farm: "All you [Sir Keir Starmer] are doing is making the countryside susceptible to radical change from massive corporations and taking it out of family farms鈥� hands"
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Ben Aveling, Radmore Farm: "All you [Sir Keir Starmer] are doing is making the countryside susceptible to radical change from massive corporations and taking it out of family farms鈥� hands"

A Northamptonshire farmer has appealed directly to the Prime Minister and called for a rethink of the planned Inheritance Tax policy changes. The policy, which becomes law in April 2026, includes the...

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