Hundreds of tractors gathered on Whitehall on Wednesday morning in the latest protest by UK farmers against changes to tax reliefs announced by Rachel Reeves in the Budget, which they say will spell the death of their sector.

The government is sticking to its plans to impose a 20% inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1m in a bid to stop wealthy people buying up land to avoid inheritance tax. However, farmers say small family farms will be impacted.

Vehicles decorated with Union flags line streets of Westminster Hundreds of farmers have descended on London in tractors in protest against the Government’s inheritance tax