Farmers to Rally in London, Lobby MPs Over Inheritance Tax

The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is set to put pressure on Parliament over the government’s change to inheritance tax. On Tuesday, the NFU will lead 1,800 members for a mass lobby on MPs, calling for the plans to introduce 20 percent inheritance tax on farms worth over £1 million to be scrapped. The union said in a statement published last week that its farmer and grower members will be meeting with their MPs “to bring to life the impacts of this policy change on their farms, on British farming and on food supply, and to urge them to ask the Chancellor to reconsider these measures.”...