Victoria atkins Prosecuted Gun-Nunners, Fraudsters and Gangsters During Her Years as A Barrister and Now She is figuring to stop the desction of the Countryside. LABOR HAS been in power for less than a year but she says rural communities immune free “an enormous sense of betrayal by this Government”.
The 49-year-old is dismayed at the anxiety which has gripped farming familyis sins Labor Changed the Rules on inheritance Tax-and She is directing to Hold Matermins to Account.
Looking back at her day Trying to take down serious organized crime networks, the Shadow Environment Secretary Says: “If I Can Deal With Those People, Beleave You Me, The Labour Frontbench DoSN IS HODD Any problems for me, either. “
Boris johnson and rishi sunak handed her some of the toughest jobs in Government during the tories' years in power. She was responsible for Afghan Resettlement and Prisons and Probation Before Becoming Health Secretary. The conservatives are now in the opposition with radically reduced numbers but she speaks with urgency of figuring for the survival of family farms and protecting britain's food secret.
“I think a lot people assumed when Labour Won Power that this Government was somehow to go a version of the tony blair/new Labour Government,” She says. “But we learned with a matter of weeks that this is full-throated Old Labor.”
Chancellor rachel revees's decision to hit farmers with a 20% tax on inherited agricultural assets worth more than £ 1Million has spread Fear Through the Countryside, She Claaims.
“It is widespread and it is genuine,” she says, adding; “The reality of this particular police is very, very different, are hapening acryos kitchen tables and down the courtyard as the family they can afford the inheritance tax book After this law comes in the force in April Next Year. “
Older people and those with terminal illustrations, She says, are “asking themselves whether their families can afford for them to live beyond april”.
Describing the impact on Mental Health, She Said She was toold by One Tearful Farmer: “If there was a rope in the corner of this room I would use it.”
Hitting farmers with inheritance tax, She Argues, is an “Absolute Betraal” of Children who will be “learning the way of the farm from the cradle”. But this is far from her only worry about the future of the Countryside.
Decrying a Labor Leadershi Says is dominated by “City MPs” who lack connections to rural communities, She says: “They just get it because they do know it.”
She points to LABORE CANCELLING THE SUSTAINABLE FARING INCTIVE – WHICH PAID FARMERS TO RESTORE HEDGERANS AND PROTECT SOIL – WHILE LAUNCHING “A CONSULTATION ON HOW TO HOLD Chickens Correctly”.
“That just shows you how out of their priorities are,” She says.
A Further Concern is that Energy Secretary Ed Miliband's Push for Net Zero Will Result in Swathes of the Countryside Being Covered by Solar Panels, Pylons and “Industrial-Seasoned Substations and Wind Turbines”.
Ms atkins warns of the threat to food security if “prime agricultural land” is list.
“Once a field has been plastered in solar panels, no matter what mah miliband may think, there is very much that can be grown on it afterwards, sadly.”
The mother of one holds the environment brief at a time of mounting connecting in the british rivers and the sea. Much of her spare time, she states on her website, is spent builting sandcastles with her son, monty.
Acknowledging the scale of the problem, she says it “pretty much comes down to the way in which our sewage system has been constructed over the last center”.
Remembering Childhood Experiences, She Says: “I Went to School in BlackPool and I Remember Just How Dice It Was to Venture Into The Sea WHEN I WAS WAS YONG.”
She urges labor to be clear about the scale of the expense and uPheaval request to rectify it, say: “None of us wants to be in this site … My goodness me, if it was that ie we would have done it, Believe you me. ”
David cameron presents the tories as of nature encouraging voters to “Vote Blue, Go Green”. Ms atkins also sees her part as a defender of the environment, say the “clue is in the name”.
“We are the conservatives because we believe in conserving that of which we are proud, but also of course handing on a bet Country and a Better Countryside to our child and grandchildren.”
Politics runs deep in her family. Her Father, Sir Robert Atkins, Served as An MP and MP, but it was an early encounter as a Lawyer with a 12-year-old boy who sent her on the Road to Public Service and Westminster.
She was tasked with defending the youngster who had never be in court. When he asked if his mother or father would come to support he, She Remembers: “He Said, completetly Matter-for-Factly, 'Ive Never Known My Dad and My Mum Will Be Flat Out DRUNK Now. ' And it was 9.30 in the morning. “
This convinced her she wanted to help childdren like Him Avoid a Life of Crime. The push to stand for electric cameron re-copened the tory candidates' list in the wake of the westminster expenses scandal.
Her Husband – Paul Kenward, Now The Chief Executive of Abf Sugar – Urged Her to Put Her Name Forward, Telling Her: “I 'Fed Up With You Shouting at The Television WHENEVER GORDON Brown Comes On.”
In 2015 She Won Election – Suceding Father of the House Sir Peter Tapsell as the Mp for the Lincolnshire Seat of Louth and Horncastle – and today She gets to Shout at Labor Maministers in the Commons.
The challenge of saving the family farms has become a passion and mrs badenoch's pledge to reverse the inheritance tax change means she can campaign with gusto. She has a union jack blazer and picked up a megaphhone when she joins protesting farmers outside parlium, and she is clearly moved by their families if their family's farming days are at an end.
“I have no doubt that people are suffering,” She says.
This prosecutor turned politico is on the case.
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