‘You can’t keep coming for agriculture’: farmers prepare to protest over bitter budget harvest

Activists and the NFU insist Labour tax reforms aimed at the wealthy will also hurt smaller, poorer producers

A wave of wellies is preparing to pound the streets of Westminster on Tuesday, as groups of farmers bring their anger over the government's budget changes to inheritance tax to the capital.

For decades, agricultural properties have been passed down tax-free to heirs, but that will change from April 2026, when farms and other business property are brought under the remit of inheritance tax.