Watch: Farming chief weeps at Labour’s tax raid

The public outrage at Labour’s family farm tax isn’t going away any time soon. Today farmers from across the country have driven their tractors to Westminster in yet another protest at Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax on agricultural assets, as countrymen fear for the future of family-owned farms. Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot insist the majority of farms will be unaffected but their pleas for calm have landed on deaf ears as the Starmtroopers continue to lose rural supporters over the matter.

As frustrated farmers gathered outside of parliament today, the issue was also being discussed inside the walls of Westminster. The President of the National Farmers’ Union Tom Bradshaw cut a striking figure at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee this morning, armed with a stark – and moving – warning for Starmer’s army.

Quizzed on the impact of the proposed tax on the mental health of farmers, Bradshaw wasn’t holding back.