EFRA committee report: Government “must listen” and “ditch family farms tax”

Responding to the EFRA committee’s report saying that the Government must rethink the family farm tax, Welsh Liberal Democrat Westminster Spokesperson David Chadwick MP said:

“The UK Labour Government’s disastrous family farm tax has been a hammer blow to many farms up and down Wales.

“I was proud to be able to bring Alistair Carmichael, Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland and Chair of the EFRA Committee, to Builth Wells this February to meet and engage with farmers from across Wales, and it is absolutely right that the Committee has now called for the dreadful policy to be paused.

“Lib Dems have been hounding the Government from the very start to axe the family farm tax and protect those farmers already hanging by a thread after years of being failed by both the Conservative party in Westminster and Labour Party in Cardiff Bay, with botched trade deals, rocketing bills and plunging incomes.

“It’s about time this Labour Government, especially rural Welsh Labour MPs, started listening to farmers — and that starts by admitting they were wrong, listening to this report and ditching the family farm tax.”

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