West Worcestershire MP Dame Harriett Baldwin has agreed to meet with a delegation of county farmers worried about how inheritance tax changes will impact their future.

Thousands of farmers from all over the country are planning to travel to London to meet with their MPs and call for a reverse of the new inheritance tax rules introduced in the Budget.

The changes will mean many family farms will need to be split and sold off to pay huge tax bills when the owner dies.

Farms which will have been passed down through the generations are at risk of being broken up and sold as Chancellor Rachel Reeves launches another Government attack on the rural way of life.

The MP will meet a delegation of farmers who work the land in her West Worcestershire constituency and put world-class food on our tables.

Dame Harriett said:

“There are hundreds of family farms in West Worcestershire and many farmers feel betrayed by the budget which ends the Agricultural Property Relief after the Labour party said they had no plans to change it.

“I regularly meet with farmers and visit their family farms, so it is important to me that I am able to meet with them when they come to my place of work.

“Farmers do a vital job putting food on our tables and food security should be a matter of national importance.

“Taxing farms out of existence will only mean fewer food producers and inevitably higher prices when we come to pay our weekly shopping bills. The Chancellor should reverse this tax changes and help to protect our farmers and their future.”