Protest this week by farmers over inheritance tax raid sounds alarm bells for Labour’s rural prospects
Ire of farmers and pensioners mounts as British Labour faces possibility of new ‘winter of discontent’
“I think you’ll have all seen the media reports about what farmers across the United Kingdom think they should be doing next,” said NFU president Tom Bradshaw, hinting at predictions that farmers could go on food-producing strikes to bring Labour to the negotiating table. Analysis of the numbers from July’s election, however, suggests that up to 60 per cent of Labour’s 100 most marginal seats are in rural or semi-rural areas, where the views of farmers would hold sway and are bound to influence the next election, expected to be in 2029.
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