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Labour has already destroyed its budding alliance with rural Britain

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Baroness Mallalieu is a Labour peer and president of the Countryside Alliance .

She says the policy of raising inheritance tax from farms is a misunderstanding rather than a deliberate attack on the farming community.

The value of farmland has risen inexorably as demand for land for non-farming uses such as rewilding and renewable energy has grown.