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SNP unites with the rich on farm tax
The super-rich falsely claim inheritance tax changes will devastate small farmers, while millionaire landowners continue enjoying numerous tax advantages — why is the SNP supporting this nonsense, asks RICHARD LEONARD
NOT THE PEASANTS’ REVOLT: Some well-heeled types make their objections to millionaires paying tax on rural property known, London, November 19 2024
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
MUCH of the language in the debate on how inheritance tax changes will affect farmers has been intemperate, inaccurate and deliberately inflammatory.
In the Scottish Parliament, the Tories accused the Labour government of “taking our land.”
The SNP backed them up, claiming that the proposed change to end the 100 per cent exemption of farms from inheritance tax was “catastrophic” for the farming industry in Scotland.
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