Torridge councillor calls challenges facing farmers 'absolutely heartbreaking;

Teresa Tinsley from Torridge council has asked why the government has made the decision concerning inheritance tax for farmers.

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00:00My name's Theresa Tinsley and I'm a Torridge District Councillor as well.

00:25I was surrounded by the farming community there, the cows going up and down twice a

00:44day to be milked and sometimes coming into our garden, the sheep coughing in the night

00:50when I had the summer evenings, when I had the window open, the cream teas, the harvest

01:01suffers.

01:02It's part of our heritage and I think that since then, since I've grown up then, farmers

01:10have suffered so badly, it's been one thing after another and it's all been agricultural

01:18policies which have not done you any good at all, you've been pulled from one way to

01:26another.

01:27Now we've had Brexit, we've had Covid, we've had foot and mouth, we've got climate, the

01:37weather and now this.

01:40I think it's just absolutely heartbreaking.

01:48My colleague, Cheryl Cookin, has gone to London and she'll be meeting Jeffrey Cox today

01:56and I know that she's personally been affected by this or will be affected by this.

02:02She's a farmer in Petrox though and she's been at the forefront of making the case that

02:10there are many more farmers affected, she's saying, but what I don't understand, if it's

02:20only a few farmers, why are they doing it?

02:24Why are they doing it, if it's only a few farmers?