Andy, @andyburnham I am pleading with you to end this nightmare for farming families. Farmers have now lived under the shadow of the farm IHT changes for nearly two years. Behind all the Treasury calculations and political arguments are real families, real farms and an enormous amount of fear. A close friend of my son died by suicide just a week before his wedding. He had been deeply worried about what divorce could mean for the future of the family farm. This year, the brother of one of my closest friends died intestate. His death has left the farm and his family facing terrible uncertainty and complexity at the worst possible moment. These are not wealthy people sitting on disposable assets. A farm is a home, a business, a livelihood and often the work of several generations bound together. For nearly two years families have been trying to work out whether they must sell land, restructure businesses, change wills, divide farms or somehow find money that simply does not exist in cash. The human strain of that uncertainty is immense. Please, Andy, use the Budget to bring it to an end. Restore proper APR and BPR for genuine working farms and family businesses and release farming families from this burden. They need certainty. They need to be able to plan for succession rather than fear it. And, above all, they need to know that passing a viable farm from one generation to the next is not something government intends to punish.