Farmers hold Budget day protest in London

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Farmers take part in a protest with their tractors in Trafalgar Square, London, ahead of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivering her Budget in the House of Commons.

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00:00So yes, dramatic scenes from central London on Wednesday. The latest in a series of farmer

00:10processes involving the use of tractors here in the capital. This time it was to protest

00:17Wednesday's budget. More than a dozen tractors could be seen here parked outside Parliament

00:24on Wednesday morning, with rush hour traffic brought to a standstill and farmers repeatedly

00:32sounding the tractor horns while police stood watching. We heard from David Gunn, an arable

00:40farmer and agricultural contractor from near Sevenoaks in Kent. He said he was protesting

00:48over the government move to put inheritance tax on farm businesses worth more than $1

00:54million, while another farmer humorously attended the event dressed as Father Christmas, with

01:01his tractor carrying a large spruce tree and bearing a sign that read Farmer Christmas, the

01:08naughty list Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, David Lamy, Diane Abbott, Angela Rayner and the BBC.

01:16As mentioned, a number of people were arrested at the demonstration. However, political party

01:23Reform UK has since said it would pay for the defence of farmers arrested at the demonstration,

01:31saying the arrests were outrageous. The Chancellor's plans to introduce a 20% rate on agricultural

01:39land and businesses worth over £1 million have become a political flashpoint.

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