Brexit divisions among farmers are endangering fight against Reeves’ tractor tax News analysis: The shadow the Britain’s Brexit divide is now undermining farmers’ attempts to reverse Rachel Reeves’ changes to inheritance tax.
While the blaring horns gave politicians (and journalists) in the Palace of Westminster a headache for most of the day, the image on display was one of farmers and their supporters united in common cause - just as they had been in the previous two mass protests in Westminster.
Late last year, The Independent published one such plan to raise the threshold where inheritance tax is paid to a much higher point, as much as £20 million, and only impose it on farms under that value if they are sold immediately after a farmer’s death.
"Nigel is in awe of Donald Trump, he is the first person to want an American trade deal, if you have the American trade deal that destroys British farming, so you can't have both.
Farage’s lack of welcome at the Westminster event has been put down to the fact that the organiser was Liz Webster, who previously was on the Remain side in the Brexit debate as part of the pro-EU Save British Farming.
