Andrew Meredith

No one was terribly surprised by this week’s news that the Treasury will press on with its plan to reform inheritance tax (IHT) with virtually no changes

At the end of last month I wrote in this column that no successful effort had yet been made to persuade the Treasury to change tack on its proposed

Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, your one-stop-shop for the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. First, here are

There are tentative signs this week that Treasury officials are taking seriously the proposals from tax think tank CenTax to further amend the proposals

“Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.” This was the phrase that sprang to mind amid a stampede of emails from lobby groups on Wednesday (15

There is a certain type of child who picks up their football and takes it home rather than suffer the indignity of losing the game. The trouble for these

The decision this week to place last-minute restrictions on the right of farmers to protest in London on the day of the Budget was regrettable,

What has been the greatest farming controversy of this still relatively young year so far? Some of you will answer the sorry state of the Sustainable

In Birmingham this week for the NFU Conference, the theme was resilience. The backdrop running right across the impressively large stage was a photograph

There is a well-worn phrase in political circles about how one should interpret the many, many things that come out of the mouth of US president Donald