Farmers have taken their tractors to the streets as they step up their campaign against Keir Starmer‘s inheritance tax grab.
Fury has spread against the plans following protests last year, with works saying the new measures would ‘decimate’ the country’s agricultural sector.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has now urged its members to make themselves heard – as they take food, machinery and livestock to town centres across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
In a so-called National Day of Unity they could be seen winding along busy highstreets and city centres, with huge tractors plastered with slogans.
It comes after a petition signed by more than 270,000 members of the public was handed in to 10 Downing Street on Friday by NFU president Tom Bradshaw and NFU Cymru president Aled Jones.
The decree urges the Government to ditch what they described as the ‘devastating family farm tax’.
Rachel Hallos, a livestock farmer from the South Pennines and the vice president of the NFU, said she hoped the events will ‘raise awareness’ of the impact of the planned reforms to inheritance tax for farming businesses, and push the Government to review its decision.
