Reality is this dreadful tax alongside Business Property Relief that should never have been considered in the first place and there still remains serious damage to larger family farms.

However the news is very welcome and will take away the anxiety and concerns of many small and medium sized family farms.

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Many non-family units were never to be affected and targeting family farms was always an utter disgrace.

So why did the announcement take place after the government insisted for the past 14 months the death charge should be levied?

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The u-turn was not agreed by Rachel Reeves or her Treasury colleagues but by the prime minister himself.

Starmer had taken a battering at the Parliamentary Liaison Committee over the subject with one of his own MPs.

Cat Smith stated that she had 950 farm holdings as well as many businesses that rely on farming in her constituency of Lancaster and Wyre.

Many elderly or terminally ill farmers were considering hastening their deaths due to the Inheritance Tax introduction in April 2026 and she said in no uncertain terms to a most uncomfortable PM the policy should be scrapped!

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