Jeremy Clarkson angrily snaps at Victoria Derbyshire in fiery interview over farming row

Jeremy Clarkson clashed with BBC journalist, Victoria Derbyshire, contiguous astatine an aggravated rally successful Westminster, which criticised the Government's £1m inheritance taxation connected farms

Jeremy Clarkson snapped astatine Victoria Derbyshire contiguous astatine the fraught farmers' rally successful Westminster.

The Clarkson's Farm presenter, 64, descended connected Parliament Square with his Amazon Prime co-star, Kaleb Cooper, 26, to protestation against the Government's £1m inheritance taxation connected farms.

Joined by a convoy of tractors and aggravated farmers, Jeremy stuck up for his cultivation allies, which person go portion of his beingness since helium started his smash deed show. However, erstwhile asked by BBC journalist, Victoria, if helium was astatine the rally simply for "himself", helium fumed: "Typical BBC. You people!"

The statement began erstwhile Victoria asked the Top Gear prima wherefore helium was protesting, clarifying: "So it's not astir you, your workplace and to debar inheritance attack?"

Rolling his eyes astatine the seasoned star's question, Jeremy quipped: "Classic BBC there. Classic." Victoria changeable back: "Is it?", referring to an nonfiction successful the Sunday Times wherever the dad-of-three wrote astir the taxation benefits of buying a farm.

Jeremy past disputed the assertion that it was a "fact" that helium bought his Oxfordshire workplace for taxation purposes, insisting it was due to the fact that helium loved state sports specified arsenic shooting.

The present visibly aggravated presenter continued: "Typical BBC. You people", and would aboriginal accidental to the assemblage astir them: "Are you listening to this?" erstwhile Victoria repeated Rachel Reeves' claims that the inheritance taxation raised would "raise wealth for nationalist services".

Continuing his rant, which was being recorded for BBC's Newsnight helium said: "Let's commencement from the opening I wanted to shoot, which comes with the payment of not paying inheritance tax, present I do.

"People similar maine volition simply enactment it successful a trust, and truthful agelong arsenic I unrecorded for 7 years that's fine. As my girl says, you mightiness beryllium successful a heavy frost astatine the extremity of it, but you volition unrecorded for 7 years. It is incredibly clip consuming to person to bash that, wherefore should each these radical person to bash that, wherefore should they?" Jeremy added that the "only reason'" Rachel Reeves bought successful the inheritance taxation connected farmers was to "stop affluent radical utilizing it".

Earlier today, the Top Gear prima admitted helium was flouting his doctor's orders by attending the rally aft being warned not to enactment himself successful 'stressful' situations. However, the outspoken petrolhead was determined to marque his dependable heard successful Westminster, adjacent though helium was rushed successful for an exigency bosom cognition lone past month.

Farmers are staging protests calling for the Government to scrap its changes to cultivation inheritance tax. Protests already erupted extracurricular the Welsh Labour league implicit the caller taxes for farms worthy much than £1 million, which person been fulled by uncertainty astir Treasury figures the Budget bombshell is based on.

The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is holding a wide lobby of MPs with 1,800 of its members – 3 times arsenic galore radical arsenic primitively planned – to impulse backbenchers to basal up to the Government’s plans to enforce inheritance taxation connected farms worthy much than £1 million.

And thousands much are expected to articulation a abstracted rally successful Whitehall arsenic they protestation against past month’s Budget, which besides sped up the signifier retired of EU-era subsidies arsenic backing is switched to nature-friendly farming schemes.

Farmers person reacted with choler to the inheritance taxation changes for farming businesses, which bounds the existing 100% alleviation for farms to lone the archetypal £1 cardinal of combined cultivation and concern property.For thing supra that, landowners volition wage a 20% taxation rate, alternatively than the modular 40% complaint of inheritance taxation (IHT) applied to different onshore and property.

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