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Mo Metcalf-Fisher, director of external affairs at the Countryside Alliance, said: "Having councils, many in areas covered by Labour MPs, openly revolting against the Treasury is a bad look for Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer."
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Mo Metcalf-Fisher, director of external affairs at the Countryside Alliance, said: "Having councils, many in areas covered by Labour MPs, openly revolting against the Treasury is a bad look for Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer."

A landmark number of councils across Great Britain have called on the Government to overturn the family farm tax. Mo Metcalf-Fisher, director of external affairs at the Countryside Alliance (CA), said...

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