MAPPED: The full list of rural Labour MPs who BETRAYED their farming constituents yesterday – is yours one?
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Swathes of rural Labour MPs have been accused of betraying their farming constituents by voting for Reeves’ inheritance tax hike yesterday.
The Conservatives used their opposition day to force a vote on Labour’s contentious death duties that will see farmers taxed at 20 per cent on assets over £1million.
The move prompted 20,000 angry farmers to gridlock central London on November 19, but the government doubled down saying it was a ‘fair and balanced way’ to plug the £22billion black hole.
Kemi Badenoch’s motion to scrap the changes to inheritance tax- widely labelled the ‘family farm tax’- was defeated comfortably by 339 noes to 181 ayes, a majority of 158.
With such a large majority, Labour was never likely to lose the vote.
But as many Labour backbench MPs would not have known of Reeves’ tax hike before her budget, this vote forced them to support or oppose it publicly.
GB News has cross referenced the list of MPs who voted for the inheritance tax with the list of the most rural Labour MPs.
Below is the result, an interactive map allowing readers to see who betrayed their countryside voters.
Rural Labour MPs who backed Reeves' tax hike on farmers
GB News/Flourish
Full list:
Sean Woodcock / Banbury
John Whitby / Derbyshire Dales
Rachel Taylor / North Warwickshire and Bedworth
Elaine Stewart / Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
David Smith / North Northumberland
Sam Rushworth / Bishop Auckland
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter / Suffolk Coastal
Joani Reid / East Kilbride and Strathaven
Richard Quigley / Isle of Wight West
Peter Prinsley / Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
Dr. Simon Opher / Stroud
Dan Norris / North East Somerset and Hanham
Samantha Niblett / South Derbyshire
Kanishka Narayan / Vale of Glamorgan
Katrina Murray / Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch
Joe Morris / Hexham
Perran Moon / Camborne and Redruth
Kirsty McNeill / Midlothian
Blair McDougall / East Renfrewshire
Douglas McAllister / West Dunbartonshire
Noah Law / St Austell and Newquay
Jayne Kirkham / Truro and Falmouth
Chris Kane / Stirling and Strathallan
Louise Jones / North East Derbyshire
Lillian Jones / Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Terry Jermy / South West Norfolk
Claire Hughes / Bangor Aberconwy
Jonathan Hinder / Pendle and Clitheroe
Lloyd Hatton / South Dorset
Dame Nia Griffith / Llanelli
Ben Goldsborough / South Norfolk
Becky Gittins / Clwyd East
Anna Gelderd / South East Cornwall
Graeme Downie / Dunfermline and Dollar
Helena Dollimore / Hastings and Rye
Jonathan Davies / Mid Derbyshire
Ashley Dalton / West Lancashire
Torcuil Crichton / Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Andrew Cooper / Mid Cheshire
Jacob Collier / Burton and Uttoxeter
Sam Carling / North West Cambridgeshire
Irene Campbell / North Ayrshire and Arran
Markus Campbell-Savours / Penrith and Solway
Matt Bishop / Forest of Dean
Richard Baker / Glenrothes and Mid Fife
Olivia Bailey / Reading West and Mid Berkshire
Sadik Al-Hassan / North Somerset
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