Big Brother star Cameron Kinch was left in tears on the programme over Labour’s plans to place an inheritance tax on farmers – which viewers have branded “cruel”. Under Keir Starmer’s current plan, any inherited agricultural assets worth more than £1million will be taxed at a rate of 20%. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced she would end the exemption on farmland covered by Agricultural Property Relief.
Now young farmer Cameron has explained how the policy will affect him, breaking down in tears on the ITV programme as he was asked to make a case for winning a pass into the final. One of his co-stars asked: “I don’t think you’re really selling yourself so far, so come on, tell me. I want to see a bit of passion. Why would you like to make the Big Brother final?”
Clearly emotional, Cameron replied: “If I was to win, I’d be using my money to possibly pay for family farm tax more so than anything else. I lose sleep over what it might mean for the farm. It’s a really sh** position that a farmer has to come on here to try to win £100,000 so their farm… it’s not fair.”
He broke down in tears, explaining: “The farm is your lifestyle, your way of life. You are on the farm all the time, you are on the farm 24/7. But you do it to hand it over to your kids, to your grandkids.
“It’s your legacy, and when the best advice has been to do something that’s now going to cripple us, to sell off land, which will make your farm less productive…
“Plus, every field means something to you, especially if your farm has been in your family for generations and generations, and you work on that farm day and night. It’s your blood and soul. It’s raising your kids on that farm.
“And when you are sort of working for, quite often, b****r all actual money, but you have that one thing, you have the farm. That is your livelihood. And when you have your dad that’s worked for years and years and years, to think it might be whacked away from him at the very last hurdle.”
