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EXCLUSIVE - George Dunn on the Autumn Budget: "The Chancellor has run scared from meeting farmers and their representative bodies to debate her policies"

TFA chief executive George Dunn writes for 草榴社区 Guardian on the Autumn Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves' lack of engagement with farmers, and how she can start to restore confidence in the tenant farming sector

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George Dunn, TFA chief executive, said: "It is hugely frustrating that the Chancellor did not engage with the farming community to debate her policies and to take account of the full package of measures that would both enhance the ability of the Government to meet its public policy objectives and diminish the damaging impacts on farm businesses and farm families."
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George Dunn, TFA chief executive, said: "It is hugely frustrating that the Chancellor did not engage with the farming community to debate her policies and to take account of the full package of measures that would both enhance the ability of the Government to meet its public policy objectives and diminish the damaging impacts on farm businesses and farm families."

The TFA has welcomed the concession announced in the Autumn Budget that the new 拢1 million zero rate threshold for Agricultural Property Relief (APR) and Business Property Relief (BPR) from Inheritance...

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