Gardeners' World star Alan Titchmarsh defends Jeremy Clarkson amid battle with Labour

Alan Titchmarsh defended Jeremy Clarkson implicit Labour's inheritance taxation changes (Image: Getty)

Alan Titchmarsh has travel to the defence of Jeremy Clarkson, highlighting the fiscal struggles faced by farmers and stating they request "more fighters" than different sectors.

In a December interrogation with the Off Air with Jane and Fi Times podcast, Alan praised 64-year-old Jeremy's efforts successful farming.

The renowned gardener, 75, utilized the illustration of the car enthusiast turned husbandman to exemplify the dire fiscal circumstances galore farmers look arsenic they defy changes to inheritance laws introduced by the Labour government.

He stated: "I deliberation erstwhile you've worked a portion of world for that agelong and it hasn't provided you with the benignant of income that you get successful IT, it truly doesn't, look astatine Jeremy Clarkson and Clarkson's Farm, that archetypal twelvemonth what did helium earn? £140."

He continued: "And that's crossed the committee it's precise hard and I volition basal up and combat for farmers each spot arsenic overmuch arsenic I would combat for anybody other who's earning a living. They request much fighters successful that country than they bash successful the country of exertion which has got its ain flywheel and dynamic effect moving forward."

Jeremy Clarkson has an improbable state successful his conflict with Labour (Image: Getty)

Besides defending an improbable ally, Alan besides criticised the proliferation of star panels successful agrarian areas, arguing they instrumentality up abstraction wherever nutrient could beryllium grown.

He declared: "It's down to america arsenic a federation to worth our farmers and growers and to worth nutrient accumulation and the effect it has connected our landscape," reports LancashireLive.

"If we're not careful, successful 50 years time, each the fields that are susceptible of increasing truly bully nutrient volition conscionable beryllium covered successful star panels and I don't privation to beryllium present then.

"Solar panels are utile for creating vigor but successful areas wherever for lawsuit you can't turn food. Solar panels are for places I would reason that can't different prolong our life," Alan remarked, expressing his concerns implicit the encroachment of exertion connected fertile farmland.

Alan besides shared his content that determination is simply a "pretty cardinal disconnect betwixt america arsenic a federation and the countryside due to the fact that the immense bulk of radical unrecorded successful towns and cities".

His outspoken comments came amid ongoing frictions with the Labour authorities past year, arsenic farmers struggled nether caller economical pressures. The Autumn Budget dropped a bombshell connected the cultivation community; from April 2026, inheritance taxation would deed farmers, stirring the cookware of contention that had been bubbling since precocious 2024.

Despite protestations arsenic 2025 unfolds, fears equine implicit imaginable ramifications adjacent earlier the argumentation takes effect, the BBC has highlighted.

Addressing the contentious issue, Labour MP Steve Witherden urged his authorities to reconsider its stance, recounting a harrowing speech with a husbandman who purportedly confessed: "If lone I could dice now, if lone determination were immoderate benignant of pill I could instrumentality now, truthful that my children won't person to interest astir this."