Farmers and their tractors are gathering at different farms on the outskirts of London before ploughing into Westminster again to protest Reeves’ Farm Tax. Farmers were last protesting outside the Chancellor’s growth reset speech two weeks ago…
Farage has been speaking outside one of the meeting points as farmers assemble:
“I actually think there are some wins that we can get from this. Why? Well normally governments with big parliamentary majorities can do what the hell they like. This government has a big parliamentary majority but seven months in, how well is it going? They are doing very badly indeed, and they’re scared out of their lives. They’ve got a 100 Labour MPs that are representing rural or semi-rural constituencies, and from what I can see Joe Public is getting behind the concept that the family farm should not be driven out of existence.”
The Reform leader went further than his party’s last manifesto (raising the IHT threshold to £2 million) by calling for a full abolition of the death tax:
“So I think the country now is going to come together with lots of different groups, and let’s just stand up and say ‘no to death taxes.’ Full stop. End death taxes – they’re wrong, they’re immoral at every level and the way your community is being treated is unbelievable. I think somebody at the Treasury got their sums wrong where they set the financial limits – or could it be they just want lots of land.”
Reeves is finding herself with few friends on the tax as most supermarkets and even its key academic supporters abandon it. The British public for its part hates the death tax…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”