Thousands of British farmers are descending connected the superior today, successful protestation against the caller Labour government's inheritance taxation changes.

By Max Parry, News Reporter

07:23, Tue, Nov 19, 2024 | UPDATED: 07:25, Tue, Nov 19, 2024

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French farmers protestation successful January 2024 (Image: Getty)

French farmers person offered to "lend a hand" to British famers demonstrating against Labour's inheritance taxation raid, up of a wide protestation successful cardinal London today.

Thousands of British farmers are expected successful the capital, protesting implicit Rachel Reeves' determination to enforce inheritance taxation connected farms worthy much than £1m.

The caput of the militant Coordination Rurale national successful the southwestern Lot-et-Garonne region, Serge Bousquet-Chassagne, offered to counsel his British counterparts.

“I’m prepared to person my British husbandman colleagues oregon to question implicit determination to lend a hand. We person a batch of signifier erstwhile it comes to much extremist forms of protest. We’re each successful the aforesaid boat.”

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Farmers signifier a protestation successful Wales connected November 16 (Image: Getty)

French farmers person this week dumped manure and jammed roads implicit the Mercosur commercialized woody betwixt the EU and South American countries.

However, up of today's protest, British farmers person been adamant that they volition not beryllium borrowing specified extremist tactics.

“We are focused connected Tuesday’s non-disruptive rally for now, beyond that who knows what happens next,” said Clive Bailye, Farming Forum's laminitis and 1 of the protest's main organisers. The Telegraph reports that Just Stop Oil whitethorn besides be the protest.

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Farmers protestation again successful June 2024, connected the French borderline with Spain (Image: Getty)

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Despite the committedness to peaceful protest, determination are calls successful immoderate corners for a "sewage strike" successful the French mould.

However, organisers are keen to guarantee tge objection is non-disruptive, asking those attending to pledge that their behaviour “will not mode compromise the representation of the cultivation manufacture oregon the co-ordinators of the event”.

According to reports 1,800 National Farmers' Union members volition descend connected the superior today. Follow our unrecorded blog for updates.