Farmer releases song blasting Keir Starmer over Labour’s inheritance tax raid

A farming YouTuber has released a song lambasting Sir Keir Starmer over Labour’s inheritance tax raid.

Fifth-generation arable farmer Nick Tarry, 32, from Northamptonshire, fears his family could be forced to sell off land if controversial plans to impose inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million go ahead.

He hopes his track – titled Back off Starmer – I Wanna Be A Farmer – will help get the message across to as many people as possible.

Mr Tarry said: “Obviously we’re going to be affected like a lot of other farmers in the country.

“I’ve got a sort of a musical background as well and I already had an existing YouTube channel for the farming.

“So I thought let’s do something here, let’s get the kids involved and make it fun, but also get that message out there at the same time.”

Mr Tarry said the reaction to the song, which is on Spotify and Apple Music as well as his which has 20,000 subscribers, has been “really positive”.

He said: “I think it’s got about 75,000 views now, pretty much every comment has been positive, there’s been hundreds of comments coming in.”

The track includes the lyrics: “I wanna be a farmer like my dad, but wants to take our land.

“Our family’s been farming for more than a century, how is it fair to take my choices away from me. Back off Starmer.”

The Government has faced an ongoing backlash for limiting the 100% inheritance tax relief for farms to £1 million of combined business and agricultural assets in the Budget.

Mr Tarry is due to inherit his family’s 500-acre arable farm from his dad Richard, 70, then hopes to pass it down to his children Oliver, eight, and Isabella, five.

But he said they could be forced to sell off land that has been in the family for generations to pay an inheritance tax bill.

He said: “It’s definitely going to affect us in that respect because of the value of the land.

“Just because we’re asset rich it doesn’t make us cash rich at all. The £1 million threshold that Rachel Reeves has put in place is not enough, it’s only a farmhouse and 20 acres, it’s not a whole farm that’s actually needed to carry on the business to make an income.

“It’s such a shame because it’s not what you’d call a windfall inheritance. I’ve worked on the farm since I left school, we just want to carry on the business.

“It’s sort of like, ‘Oh, we’re really sorry, your father’s passed away, here’s a bill for however many hundreds of thousands.’ It’s not moral, it’s not right.”

Mr Tarry urged the Prime Minister and Chancellor Rachel Reeves to U-turn or increase the threshold.

He warned that farmers will continue to stage protests against the controversial changes, adding: “I don’t think we’re going to give up the fight.”

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