British farmer investing in robots to survive Starmer's tax

“We’re as efficient as we can be,” Peter Gantlett says. “Twenty years ago we had a decision, and three choices: get out, get bigger, or improve the value of our product. We chose the last one, and went organic.”

Today, as British dairy is under siege from various squalls – not least those driven by Westminster, including Labour’s inheritance tax (IHT) changes – Gantlett is all too aware of one particular number: that one British dairy farm is going out of business every day. He’s just hoping that decision not to bow out when he could was the right one.

Peter's daughter Sally says farmers now feel helpless. ''It’s really hard to plan at the moment, because there aren’t a lot of guidelines, and you can’t make any gift payments now. So they’ve sort of trapped us, and there’s a lack of understanding about how that’ll impact everyone.”