Badenoch slams 'cruel' farms tax

KEMI Badenoch has attacked the Government’s “cruel family farms tax” as she hit out at the inheritance tax Budget measures in her first Prime Minister’s Questions as Conservative leader.

She also accused ministers of “student” politics and said Sir Keir Starmer was reading from scripted lines in her inaugural session.

Mrs Badenoch claimed that her party would reverse the changes to inheritance tax announced last week, and asked for the Government to “reassure” farmers who are worried about the move.

Addressing the Budget in her questions, the Tory leader said: “We have heard him repeat the lines on the television, ‘fixing the foundations’, and so on. What does he say to farmers who are facing uncertainty about their futures as a result of the increased taxes announced by the Chancellor?”