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Tractor protest forces Sir Keir Starmer to abandon visit to housing development

The Prime Minister was due to deliver a speech outlining the Government's plans to create new towns in England, but he was forced to leave when protesting farmers turned up and pipped their horns

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Sir Keir Starmer said: "Farming is top of the agenda as far as I am concerned."
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Sir Keir Starmer said: "Farming is top of the agenda as far as I am concerned."

Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to postpone a visit to Buckinghamshire after farmers held a tractor protest over changes to Agricultural Property Relief and Inheritance Tax. The Prime Minister was...

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