Atkins vows to fight Labour’s “farm tax” at Tory conference

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Shadow Environment Secretary Victoria Atkins has pledged to continue the Conservatives’ campaign to “axe the tax” on farmers. Speaking at the party conference, she said 265,000 people had signed the petition against the levy and accused Labour MPs of hiding behind “AI-generated speeches.” Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00265,000 people have signed our petition to axe the tax and we have done

00:06everything we can in Parliament to ensure that we hold this socialist

00:11government to account and we try to get them to U-turn. Now we forced a vote. We

00:17gave Labour MPs the chance to vote this tax down. How many of them voted to axe

00:23the tax? Zero. A big fat zero. And that is what we are having to deal with. Now I

00:31love dragging Labour ministers to the dispatch box. We don't have to put up

00:37with quite the same microphones in the chamber. But when I look at the Labour

00:41MPs that have been sent out by their whips to defend the indefensible, when I

00:48see them hiding behind their AI generated speeches like some sort of trade union

00:55automaton, I know they know they're wrong. And it is because of the pressure that

01:02farmers have kept up during the last 12 months and us working together that

01:08they are beginning to feel the pressure.

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