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Jeremy Clarkson urges government to “back down” on farm tax

  • Last updated: 10/01/2025
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Jeremy Clarkson urges government to “back down” on farm tax

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Tens of thousands attended a protest in London over the changes to inheritance tax for farmers that were announced in Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget.
Among those at the rally, which stretched from Horse Guards to Parliament Square, was TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who addressed the crowd, saying: “It’s the end for farmers”.
In a message to the government, Mr Clarkson continued: “For the sake of the farmers here today and those who are at home, paralysed by a fog of despair, admit that this was a mistake and back down.”
Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Conservative Party, also took to the stage, assuring farmers that the Conservatives would repeal the inheritance tax relief cuts at “the very first opportunity”, before labelling the Labour cuts as “so obviously unfair, and so obviously cruel”.
From April 2026, inherited agricultural assets worth more than £1 million, which were previously exempt, will be liable for the tax at 20%.
Many farmers argue that while they are asset-rich, in terms of their land and livestock, for example, they are cash-poor, and the changes would mean they would have to sell up to be able to pay the tax.
Ahead of the protest, around 1,800 National Farmers’ Union (NFU) members met near Parliament as part of a mass lobby of MPs.
The group’s president, Tom Bradshaw, gave an impassioned speech describing the tax changes as “destructive, a ‘stab in the back’ for farmers, wrong, and unacceptable.”

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