Mr Carson, whose constituency is a major dairy producer farming The center challenged Ms Grant: “What does my constituent say to Kenny Campbell, who invested over a million pounds in a new dairy but is a cancer survivor?

“If he died in the next seven years, he would leave his son with a family. tax bill over a million pounds, meaning he will receive annual payments of over £100,000. A family business is about to go bankrupt. What do you say to Mr. Campbell?”

Mrs Grant replied: “I would say to Mr Campbell that if his son is devoting time to work, he should take care of his affairs to make sure he gets the fruits of his labour.

“If the son works at the workplace, he should be paid because we have often heard that someone in the family quarrels and quarrels. work on a farm If there is no succession planning, you lose out to other members of the family who did nothing during the succession.”

Annabelle Ewing, deputy leader of Holyrood, was forced to intervene and ask Ms Grant to stop speaking due to the intensity of the protests from the Tory benches.

After these subsided, Ms Grant continued her speech and argued that it was “very little”. family farms its value was “in excess of several million pounds”.

He said the top 7 per cent of farms now accounted for 40 per cent of the total value of agricultural property relief for inheritance tax.

But the Conservative Party later released a video of Mr Campbell describing himself as an “above average” dairy farmer. farmer and admitted that changes to agricultural property relief “make me a little worried”.