{"id":684969,"date":"2026-01-09T17:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684969\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:51:16","slug":"7-times-keir-starmers-mps-forced-him-to-u-turn-so-far-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684969\/","title":{"rendered":"7 times Keir Starmer\u2019s MPs forced him to U-turn\u00a0\u2026 so far \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Time to U-turn: <\/strong>43 days (Nov. 26, 2025 \u2014 Jan. 8, 2026).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Farmers\u2019 inheritance tax\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part of Labour\u2019s electoral success came from winning dozens of rural constituencies. But Britain\u2019s farmers soon fell out of love with the government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reeves\u2019 first budget slapped inheritance tax on farming estates worth more than \u00a31 million from April 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2184908753-1024x619.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7740993\"  \/>Farmers drive tractors near Westminster ahead of a protest against inheritance tax rules on Nov. 19, 2024. | Ben Stansall\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Aimed at closing loopholes wealthy individuals use to avoid coughing up to the exchequer, the decision generated uproar from opposition parties (calling the measure the \u201cfamily farm tax\u201d) and farmers themselves, who drove tractors around Westminster playing \u201cBaby Shark.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners including TV presenter and newfound farmer Jeremy Clarkson joined the fight by highlighting that many farmers are asset rich but cash poor \u2014 so can\u2019t fund increased inheritance taxes without flogging off their estates altogether.<\/p>\n<p>A mounting rebellion by rural Labour MPs (including Cumbria\u2019s Markus Campbell-Savours, who lost the whip for voting against the budget resolution on inheritance tax) saw the government sneak out a threshold hike to \u00a32.5 million just two days before Christmas, lowering the number of affected estates from 375 to 185. Why ever could that have been?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time to U-turn: 43 days (Nov. 26, 2025 \u2014 Jan. 8, 2026). Farmers\u2019 inheritance tax\u00a0 Part of Labour\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11850,132743,802,748,1193,1194,32,33,295,393,6644,10779,39,4884,40,439,807,105581,2452,6657,2845,1144,3209,617,619,712,59719,1200,16,15,1764,12340,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-684969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-austerity","10":"tag-bailout","11":"tag-brexit","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-british-politics","14":"tag-budget","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-elections","17":"tag-elon-musk","18":"tag-england","19":"tag-farmers","20":"tag-farms","21":"tag-fuels","22":"tag-great-britain","23":"tag-immigration","24":"tag-jeremy-clarkson","25":"tag-keir-starmer","26":"tag-liz-kendall","27":"tag-media","28":"tag-migration","29":"tag-misinformation","30":"tag-northern-ireland","31":"tag-payments","32":"tag-pensions","33":"tag-rachel-reeves","34":"tag-scotland","35":"tag-stephen-timms","36":"tag-tax","37":"tag-uk","38":"tag-united-kingdom","39":"tag-wales","40":"tag-welfare","41":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115866415558351303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}