Charles Whitaker 🇺🇦
@caw_brown
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A founder equity partner of Brown & Co, with extensive agricultural business knowledge across a range of large-scale businesses; both in the UK and overseas
Norwich, Norfolk
Joined June 2012
#Trump proposed tariffs on #EU and @NATO allies for objecting to @POTUS suggestions of #Greenland takeover suggests its time to boycott US trade - crazy polítics eminating from the Whitehouse. It would be laughable if it wasn't so serious.
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So why did @potus not take the sane steps with indicted #PutinWarCriminal under @IntlCrimCourt warrant When with him on US soil in August? BBC News - https://t.co/LaXVfA1bb5 Venezuela latest: Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela until 'safe transition can take place' - watch live
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The secretary of state says the US will retain "multiple levers of leverage" if Venezuela's leaders don't "make the right decisions".
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Surely @BBCSteveR after so mamy lies from the #Kremlin, the real issue we all face in Europe, is @POTUS being playrd by Putin & not being willing to stand firmly behind Ukraine, Nato and Europe to deter invasion of foreign lands & targeting of civilians and prosecute #warcrimes
After claiming that Ukraine attacked one of Vladimir Putin’s official residences (Kyiv denies it) what will Moscow do next? One Russian paper today: “The terms of a long-term peace will now depend on the feet of Russian soldiers. Where they step, that’s ours.” #ReadingRussia
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Russian retired general Leonid Ivashov, after watching Putin’s New Year address, demonstrated a clear understanding of what is happening in Russia: “Listen, I am a professor, a general, and a geopolitical researcher with decades of experience. I watched this four-hour show and
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It took so long because Labour doesn’t understand the countryside, doesn’t understand farming, doesn’t understand it’s supply chains, doesn’t understand farm profitability vs farm values, doesn’t understand or value food production, 🥀 and wouldn’t listen to those who do.
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Remarkabe @POTUS support of Israel, launches strikes to protect "Christians" in Nigeria, but can't fully support @ZelenskyyUa and #Ukraine against invasion by Putin & constant strikes on & killing of civilians. @POTUS values oil & business interests over humanity & what's right?
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Following the government's announcement today raising the thresholds for APR/BPR, NFU President Tom Bradshaw (@ProagriLtd) thanks the Labour and opposition MPs who have voiced the concerns of their farming constituents and lobbied for changes to APR/BPR proposals.
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Well said Stuart
@VictoriaAtkins I am relieved for my friends and my clients, but I refuse to be grateful after the Treasury put so many people through 14 months of hell. This should never have happened and the Treasury should pay the political price for its ridiculous and ill-considered ideological assault
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Good news at last for UK farmers against a backdrop of @GOVUK withdrawal of support to the sector while allowimg continued imports of food products from prod'n systems that are illegal for our farmers to adopt & while making new legislation that further discriminates against them
The Government has announced today that the threshold for 100% Agricultural Property Relief (and Business Property Relief where relevant) will be increased from £1 million to £2.5 million when it is introduced in April 2026. Contact your local office: https://t.co/0vpMGt7yui
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At long last, Labour has snuck out a partial u-turn on their vindictive Family Farm Tax. It is too late for some, however. Businesses and lives have been lost. Rural communities will not forget the distress, pain and panic this government has caused them.
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£1m Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs threshold increased to £2.5m from April 2026 – allowing spouses or civil partners to pass on up to £5m in qualifying agricultural or business assets...
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And we have the @HMRCgovuk climb down on IHT and family farm tax - more than doubling the threshold from £1m to £2.5m. Let us hope Rachel Reeves also confirms can be left to surviving spouse to mean £5m per business
The Government’s Farming Profitability Review is out. Brown&Co’s “Great Agricultural Gamble” Paper was submitted & cited as evidence. Key themes are reflected. For full details, read more here: https://t.co/GqPbySpGyd
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Some good news for UK farmers and trading businesses and not before time as @NFUtweets and @Brownandcorural and all of those in the industry have been saying since it was introduced. UK softens stance on farm tax after months of protests
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Britain's government said on Tuesday it would scale back its plan to raise more tax from farmers, following months of protests since the introduction of an inheritance tax charge on farms was...
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We were delighted to welcome over 100 guests to the University Museum of Zoology yesterday to celebrate the opening of our new Cambridge office. Thank you to all who joined us for this milestone! Visit us at CC6a Clifton Court, Cambridge CB1 7BN or call 01223 659050.
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Thank you team @Brownandcorural @BrownCoLLP and the excellent @ZoologyMuseum for hosting our Cambridge office launch this evening. Onwards and upwards.
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A day of shame for Labour… Labour MPs just voted to keep Rachel Reeves’s cruel Family Farm Tax. I am totally disgusted. This could be the end of British farming.
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How did your MP vote tonight in Budget Resolution No 50 regarding Inheritance Tax? Find out below. 👇
Want to know how YOUR MP voted on limiting Agricultural & Business Property Relief? I’ve put the full list together here 👇 Farmers, land-based businesses and rural families deserve to see who backed this. https://t.co/6jhIsMWh7w
@agricontract @loosecollie @wheat_daddy
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Imagine being told by your leader: "If you try to uphold your solemn promise to your constituents we will kick you out of the party." I wonder if honest Labour MPs looking at themselves in the mirror tonight feel proud of their party? Should giving your word mean something?
I interviewed Markus Campbell-Savours this afternoon, before being told he's had the Labour whip suspended He said he voted against the government over their plans to impose inheritance tax on farmers after Labour colleagues "reneged" on promises
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Well done Markus Campbell-Savours for standing up for what's right. @RachelReevesMP & @HMRCgovuk haven't understood the impact on viability of business & farming &UK business growth. @BBCNews Labour MP suspended after rebelling on farm tax plan - BBC News https://t.co/WNls4kNmqL
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Dozens of the party's backbenchers are said to have abstained, amid concerns from rural MPs at the move.
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When Angela Rayner underpaid her SDLT, I said she shouldn't lose her job. When Rachel Reeves didn't get the right landlord licence, I said she shouldn't lose her job. If the Chancellor knowingly misleads the public about the Nation's finances, they should lose their job.
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https://t.co/w5TEW73UUT Ralph Gonsalves was elected shortly after @Brownandcorural started working in the Caribbean. He attended a @UKTI trade mission reception in SVG which we were part of alongside @BBCWorld in 2000 and we have done several projects under Ralph's Government
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