Starmer to come face-to-face with angry farmers in Wales as Labour conference overshadowed by tax row

Sir Keir Starmer is facing backlash from rural communities in the UK over his government’s family farm tax, with scores of farmers in Wales protesting at Labour’s conference in Llandudno. The prime minister is defending the controversial Budget measures, including a new inheritance tax on farms over £1 million at 20%, leading to fears of farm closures and family separations. Amidst disagreements over the number of affected farms and a call to treat family farms like the miners in the 1980s, farmers are threatening to strike and cut off Britain’s food supply, with a larger protest planned in Westminster.

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