The NFU has written to Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the upcoming Spring Forecast calling for measures which deliver a shared ambition of growth and long-term investment in the British farming industry.

As the draft legislation for the Finance Bill is laid out, the NFU is urging the government to look at its alternative ‘clawback’ solution to the family farm tax to prevent farmers – the food producers of this country – becoming collateral damage from the planned reforms. The government has outlined plans to hold a technical consultation on the draft legislation, including on inheritance tax, to ensure it ‘works as intended’. This is a common process in the development of a F

Data commissioned by the NFU has shown Labour is not trusted by its 2024 voters on issues surrounding the impact of the Budget on farmers. The polling, carried out by Portland this week, shows that changes to inheritance taxation on family farms are unpopular, and that perceptions that Labour does not value rural voters as highly as urban ones are building. The data shows that two thirds (65%) of the public do not think that the Government has fully considered the impact of i