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Tim Bonner - CA chief executive: "Labour has indeed squandered the trust and support of a very significant part of the rural community"

"57% say they trust Labour less as a result of the Inheritance Tax decision and nearly a quarter of Labour voters say they are now unhappy about the way they voted at the General Election"

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Tim Bonner, chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, on the family farm tax debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday (December 4). "A debate designed to score party political points was never going to see new Labour MPs from rural constituencies leaving the party fold."
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Tim Bonner, chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, on the family farm tax debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday (December 4). "A debate designed to score party political points was never going to see new Labour MPs from rural constituencies leaving the party fold."

My first reaction to the announcement in the Budget that the Government was going to impose Inheritance Tax on farmland was that it was bad politics. With one policy, Labour risked giving up all the...

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