Britain’s farmers could revolt

Historians may already be pinching themselves in disbelief. It is looking as though Starmer’s government may be being pitched into a full-scale crisis by picking on… millionaire farmers. It turns out that outside North London the country is not as driven by spite and envy as Rachel Reeves appears to think. And the stereotype of a farmer as a rich git in a Range Rover is rapidly being debunked as a succession of authentic yokels who are asset rich but cash poor appear on our screens. They thought they were going after Sir James Dyson and have found themselves facing people like Gareth Wyn Jones. The Welsh farmer, who would not have looked out of place on a 1980s picket line, led the tractor protest outside the Welsh Labour Party conference in Llandudno, causing the Prime Minister to apparently leave by the back entrance, as Wyn Jones said, ‘Scuttling away like a rat.