The star of Clarkson’s Farm, Jeremy Clarkson who has been a vocal critic of the Chancellor’s plans to raise inheritance tax for farmers is in talks with organisers to give a speech at a demonstration over the new “tractor tax.”
On Tuesday farming leaders and thousands of farmers will proceed to Parliament Square, they have been told not to bring their farming machinery for the protest.
Writing in The Sun Clarkson slammed the inheritance tax extension proposed by Chancellor during her Autumn Budget on 30 October.
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The former Top Gear star wrote, “I’m becoming more and more convinced that Starmer and Reeves have a sinister plan.
“They want to carpet bomb our farmland with new towns for immigrants and net zero wind farms.
“But before they can do that, they have to ethnically cleanse the countryside of farmers.
“That’s why they had a Budget which makes farming nigh on impossible.”
“I think the industry is feeling betrayed, feeling angry,” National Farmers’ Union President Tom Bradshaw said.
Bradbury told Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, “We have a Government saying food security is a critical part of national security, yet they’ve ripped the rug out from that very industry which is going to invest in food security for the future.”
The Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he is “absolutely confident” the “vast majority of farms and farmers” won’t be affected by the Chancellor’s plans.
The Standard reported, Starmer said, “Obviously, there’s an issue around inheritance tax and I do understand the concern.
“But for a typical case, which is parents with a farm they want to pass on to one of their children, by the time you’ve taken into account not only the exemption for the farm property itself, but also the exemption for spouse to spouse, then parent to child, it’s £3 million before any inheritance tax will be payable.
“That’s why I am absolutely confident the vast majority of farms and farmers will not be affected by this.”
During her Budget Rachel Reeves said, “We will reform agricultural property relief and business relief from April 2026; the first £1 million of combined business and agricultural assets will continue to attract no inheritance tax at all.
“But for assets over £1 million, inheritance tax will apply with a 50% relief and at an effective rate of 20%.
“This will ensure we continue to protect small family farms with three-quarters of claims unaffected by these changes.”
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