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Cost of breakfast staple set to soar in price due to Budget’s hated tax on farms
Farmers warned the Budget has sounded the death knell for the family farm
THE COST of British sausages could soar because of the hated farmers tax, experts warned last night.
Farmers are mutinying and considering mass protests after being clobbered by an inheritance tax raid on farms worth over £1 million.
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They say the Budget has sounded the death knell for the family farm.
Now there are dire warnings fans of the great British banger will have to pay the price.
Mo Metcalf-Fisher, from The Countryside Alliance, said: “Losing farms would be a catastrophe, we can’t risk undermining our own food security.
“Costs for everyday British favourites like bangers could well be impacted as a result and we’d be relying more and more on foreign imports.”
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Tory MP Charlie Dewhirst - whose family run a pig farm - said: “If farms are sold and it reduces food production then that could mean higher prices.”
Chancellor Rachel Reeves was also accused of “signing a death warrant” for thousands of multi-generational businesses as inheritance tax is imposed on other family-run firms for the first time since 1970.
Sun columnist and Diddly Squat Farm owner Jeremy Clarkson said farmers have been “shafted” — and TV property expert Kirstie Allsopp accused Ms Reeves of having “f***ed all farmers”.
Tory MPs warned the Budget could “spell the end of family farms”.
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They accused Environment and Farming Secretary Steve Reed of betraying the sector, having promised last year “we have no intention of changing” inheritance tax on farms.
The National Farmers Union said the move would “snatch away the next generation’s ability to produce food”.
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