Mo Metcalf-Fisher
@mometfisher
Opinions posted here are mine. External Affairs Director Countryside Alliance @caupdates.
My speech to farmers on Whitehall earlier today. We will keep fighting. Thank you for organising, @SaveBritishFood. #StoptheFamilyFarmTax
Gazing at a church, with a pint from the pub, in a lovely village green. England 🏴

Even more stomach churning are all the other civil servants publicly slapping him on the back
📺WATCH: Record number of farms shut in wake of inheritance tax raid. @mometfisher joins @iancollinsuk on @TalkTV to urge government to change direction asap➡️ youtu.be/5yzFZKe2bQg?si…
Nine months on since the budget and still on the front pages every week. The disastrous human and economic impact of this IHT policy will keep it there until it is sorted, but @HMRCgovuk still see it worthy of giving someone a prize for it. Extraordinary. @NFUtweets
Record number of farms shut in wake of Labour’s inheritance tax raid. Thank you for having me @iancollinsuk ⬇️
A record number of farms were forced to close for good this year after Rachel Reeves’s tax raid made the future of thousands of rural businesses unviable. We are walking into a food security disaster. And it’s totally unnecessary ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
“There is a deep and growing divide between rural communities and Westminster, largely due to the architects of policy that seek to do things to the countryside, rather than for it.”⬇️ express.co.uk/news/politics/…
Not long now until @TheGameFair, will we be seeing you there?! We are located at Stand E1128, right next to the @CarterJonas Theatre, and we are out in force to chat with you about our current campaigns and our fight for rural communities. Come and say hello - we can't wait!
If you need one single example of just *how far* disconnected Whitehall is from the rest of the country, you can find it below. Painful.
Posted without comment, not least because this has left me speechless.
All the hallmarks of being written by someone that’s experience of life outside SW1 is what they see from the window of the Gatwick Express. Shocking stuff.
A stunning claim from the Treasury’s Family Farm Tax impact assessment. They say it will have “no significant impact” on family life. Have the treasury spoken to a single farmer? It is already causing a huge amount of stress and anxiety amongst our hardworking farming families
The Treasury’s family farm tax legislation, which is accompanied by an impact assessment, suggests there will be “no significant macroeconomic impacts” at all. But a report says the reforms will cause over 200,000 job losses and cost nearly £2bn by 2030. express.co.uk/news/politics/…
We are ready!!! @royalwelshshow 2025!!!!
Farmers fear Labour is rolling back on its manifesto pledge to get the public sector to buy British➡️ express.co.uk/news/politics/…
Farmers fear Labour is rolling back on its popular manifesto pledge to get the public sector to buy British. Not a single reference to procurement in the food strategy…⬇️@NoFarmsNoFoods
Is Labour rolling back on its manifesto pledge to get the public sector to buy British? As @DMBean points out, to publish a food strategy that ignores it completely is a missed opportunity and a real let-down for Britain’s farmers and food producers⬇️ express.co.uk/news/politics/…
‘For many in the countryside, there is a sense their world is being sacrificed to bail out SW1’ Labour’s growing problem in the countryside, a place they had made significant gains at the last GE⬇️
"One Buckinghamshire farming leader told me Keir Starmer would be brave to show his face in any rural pub in Britain." 🖊️ @felixpope_ newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
"Our first ever proper Hawkstone commercial and for some extraordinary reason, it’s been banned." - JC
A huge congratulations to SPAR Enham Alamein in Hampshire, named Best Village Shop & Post Office in the South East at the Countryside Alliance Awards. A well-deserved recognition for a store at the heart of its community. #ThereForYou #NurtureOurNeighbourhoods
I’m instinctively a ‘YIMBY’, but some of its more vocal advocates have become as annoying as nimbys.
I’m not one to defend Labour politicians but…what do you really know about this site? Do you live near it? Do you support the team? Do you know what local concerns are? Do you know whether the CIL or S106 suffice? What about the housing element? Everything isn’t NIMBY or YIMBY
Parents should rightly be concerned. Glad to see them fighting back. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…