Nigel Farage tells farmers to take protests to Labour-held rural constituencies

Nigel Farage reacts to farming command

Nigel Farage has entreated farmers to stage protests in Labour-held rural constituencies.

The Reform UK leader insisted he believes that “something can be done” in regards to the Authorities’s inheritance tax raid on family farms.

Farmers descended on Westminster today in command at the plans to limit 100% property reduction to the first £1 million of agricultural assets.

Talking on his GB News reward, Mr Farage acknowledged: “Labour now have someplace between 70 and 100 seats they won at the election in rural or semi-rural constituencies.

“And I think what this movement now needs to do is not just to get together in London, but to be seen in market towns all over this country, especially ones that Labour won by very narrow margins at the next general election.

“I always knew that the hunting ban was going to come in. I always knew that no one would listen.

“But this time, I mediate we are able to gather a commerce. I mediate we are able to gather a necessary revision of that initiating level.”

Reform leader Nigel Farage (Image: GB NEWS)

Mr Farage, who attended the demonstration, said the controversial move will hit family farms hardest.

He said: “I would say my conclusion to all of this is that the small farmer, somebody running five or 10 acres, a smallholder basically, will be fine. The giant agribusinesses, they’ll be fine as well. It’s the people in the middle that simply won’t be fine.

“What this proposal does is to hit families running farms, families whose incomes are incredibly modest, far more modest than I think most people believe they’ve got an asset, yes, that’s worth a lot of money.

“Although for many of them, it isn’t just about money. It’s about a way of life that’s been going on for generations.”

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves frail her Funds closing month to limit the reward 100% inheritance tax reduction for farms to simplest the first £1 million of combined agricultural and enterprise property.

Underneath the plans, landowners will pay a price of 20% for anything above that amount.

Ministers have insisted that the overwhelming majority of farms might presumably per chance no longer be hit by the changes.

But many in the sector have raised issues that youthful generations might presumably per chance need to promote land or structures to pay tax payments, main to farms which were owned by the identical family over decades being broken up.