Labour grandee says ‘we don’t need small farmers’

Starmer has distanced himself from comments made by John McTernan, who was the ex-Labour senior adviser to Blair after he said “We don’t need small farmers” during a discussion about the fury among farmers towards the inheritance tax rises announced in the Budget.

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Responding to former senior Labour adviser John McTernan saying “we don’t need small farmers”, Andrew RT Davies MS, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, said:

 “These comments are disgraceful, but are sadly indicative of how many people in the Labour Party seem to feel.

“It’s clear that for many on the left, the anti-farmer agenda is a new frontier in the class war, whereby farmers are being punished for not sharing the metropolitan worldviews of those in London and other cities.

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“I will always stand with our farmers, because like most people in Britain, I know that no farmers means no food.”