Is there a Christmas truce in the Starmer farmer ding-dong?

In another U-turn from the government, the threshold for inheritance tax on farmers will be raised from an originally planned £1 million to £2.5 million, following months of protest and weeks of negotiation.

This will mean that roughly half the farms that would have been affected from April, when the new tax rules on inherited agricultural assets come in, will now be exempt.

The reversal, quietly slipped out while Parliament is in recess, “certainly does not radiate confidence from a government” with such a huge majority”...