Credit: GBNewsA former aide to Sir Tony Blair has called on Labour to “do to the farmers what Thatcher did to the miners”.John McTernan, who was Sir Tony’s political secretary, told the Chancellor not to budge on her inheritance tax raid on agricultural land,

Former political adviser John McTernan said the Government should ‘do what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners’ to protesting farmers.

A former Labour adviser has provoked outrage by suggesting the government "can do to farmers what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners".

Tony Blair's former political secretary was called ‘heartless' last night after going on an anti-farmer rant in defence of Rachel Reeves' tax hike.