"Somebody said earlier 'they haven't taken advice' - that's completely wrong. A lot of these people have spent a lot of money on the best tax planning advice, and until the Chancellor sat down [after her budget] the correct advice was to keep the farm until death. Now they don't have any way to plan through that and yet they've given everything to producing food in this country in that period post Second World War. They really deserve a lot more respect than they have been given by the changes that are proposed."
"No policy should ever be published that has that unintended side effect. Some elderly farmers now making life or death decisions and implied that some could take their own lives before Labour's new tax measures starts in April 2026. This is the reality we are facing, and we can't ignore the psychological impact these changes will have on farmers and their families."
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