As Guido was promised, farmers are back in Whitehall, with around 300 farmers driving in their tractors to protest against Labour’s family farm death tax. Last month over 13,000 farmers across the country, some who’d never even been to London before, took to the streets. Labour didn’t listen then, though they’re promising to protest until they do…
Nigel Farage once again joined the farmers as hundreds of tractors gear up to plough through Parliament Square right after PMQs. One protest organiser from Kent Fairness For Farmers warned:
“We need to show this government that we will not be pushed over and have our farms destroyed! This is war and we will win and force the government into a U-turn.”
Watch live as hundreds of tractors are expected to descend on Westminster in an “RIP British Farming” protesthttps://t.co/5CMk0k8RBb
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So far some of the slogans rolling throughout Whitehall are:
Meanwhile, DEFRA haven’t even done an impact assessment on the tax, while the Treasury’s estimate that only 500 farms will be affected were based on old figures and only accounted for one half of the capped threshold. Guido suspects this won’t be the last protest against the tractor tax…
Starmer said to Robert Peston this afternoon:
“I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.”