As UK farmers gear up for massive protest over inheritance tax changes, PM Starmer says will defend budget ‘all day long’

“I volition support our decisions successful the budget each time long,” Starmer said, acknowledging the pugnacious choices needed to stabilise the economy.  

The protestation rally, which is being organised by the Farming Forum connected Nov 19, was primitively planned for Trafalgar Square. However, it was aboriginal moved to Westminster owed to an overwhelming response, with attendance expected to transcend 10,000.

Farmers program to stitchery astatine the Victoria Embankment Gardens astatine 11 am.

Assuring that the lawsuit would stay peaceful, Clive Bailye, laminitis of the Farming Forum, said, “This is not astir causing occupation oregon blockades. If the Government doesn’t listen, farmers person different options, but we don’t privation to spell there.”

Although a ‘tractor ban’ has been enforced to debar disruption, farmers’ children volition pb a march connected artifact tractors, with notable attendees including National Farmers’ Union (NFU) president Tom Bradshaw and farming advocator Jeremy Clarkson.

Bradshaw has powerfully criticised the Labour government’s taxation hikes, informing they could unit onshore sales, summation nutrient prices, and jeopardise workplace viability.

The inheritance taxation changes person sparked wide anger, with farmers informing that the measures endanger their livelihoods. PM Starmer, who made nary nonstop notation of the protests successful his speech, has been accused of avoiding dialog with farmers.

(With inputs from Reuters, GB News)