Top farmer Liz Webster from Save British Farming says she’s ‘hopeful’ that Labour will listen and u-turn on their inheritance tax plans.

She adds that while Nigel Farage’s support is clear, his backing of Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ policy would leave British farmers massively shortchanged in the event of a trade deal with the United States.

The National Farmers’ Union – which has organised previous protests on the issue – said it supports any of its members taking part on Monday.

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said: “The strength of feeling around the proposed family farm tax is still incredibly high.

“We support any members who want to take part in other respectful and lawful demonstrations which work towards our aim to stop the family farm tax.”

Liz Webster from Save British Farming says the IHT reforms means the UK’s food system could “collapse”.

She told Sky News: “This is about a system that we all rely on. That’s what this government don’t seem to recognise.

“And that’s what we’re trying to communicate with them – if we don’t have enough food in this country there will be a major problem.”

Nigel Farage said a campaign by farmers against changes to inheritance tax rules can be successful if it is “persistent and peaceful”.

Speaking at a Farmers To Action campaign event he said: “I’m pleased to see the campaign is ramping up. It’s growing right across the country.

“The message I’ve been putting to them, I think they’re listening too, which is 100 Labour MPs now represent rural seats – if they see local communities getting behind these families, they’re going to start getting scared, and they’re going to start putting pressure on No 10, and let’s face it, they’re in pretty big trouble already.

“So I think if this campaign is persistent and peaceful, they can get change.”

Asked if he thought inheritance tax should be scrapped completely, Mr Farage said: “Yes, I do actually. You’re basically taxing money that’s been taxed already as a death tax, and it’s horrible.

“People living in semi-detached houses in London are now dragged into inheritance tax.

“And yes, of course, you can do seven-year planning and all the rest of it, but unlikely things happen. I honestly believe just getting rid of inheritance tax as a whole would be a good thing.”

We’re hearing that up to 2000 tractors are heading towards Westminster for today’s demonstartion against the government’s inheritance tax raid on farmers. That’s more than three times the amount that brought Whitehall to a standstill in December when around 650 rolled past parliament.

The Express has been on a farm since before 7am this morning to listen to Nigel Farage rally farmers.

Here’s a snippet of what he’s said.

MPs debate an e-petition with more than 148,000 signatures calling to keep the current inheritance tax exemptions for working farms.

The Government said in its response that its commitment to farmers is “steadfast” but that there is an “urgent need to repair the public finances in as fair a way as possible.”

“The reform of the reliefs strikes the right balance,” it said.

But the National Farmers Union, which has organised previous protests, said it supported any of its members taking part in protests today.

NFU President Tom Bradshaw said: “The strength of feeling around the proposed family farm tax is still incredibly high.

“We support any members who want to take part in other respectful and lawful demonstrations which work towards our aim to stop the family farm tax.”

A farmer who branded Rachel Reeves’s Budget an “attack on a way of life” considered exiting the family business because of her tax raid.

Former gin distiller Oli Stokes leads his parents Milly and Kevin’s 40-year-old Farndon Fields farm in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

He said his initial reaction to the Chancellor’s tax-raising budget was “shock and a complete loss of confidence”.

Read Oli’s story here

Nigel Farage has urged farmers to stay within the law ahead of protests today.

He said: “End death taxes! They’re wrong and immoral on every level.”

Mr Farage asked wheether there could be a “more sinister agenda behind what they’re doing?”

He jokingly shouts to farmers that “maybe you’re not diverse enough!”

The Reform leader added: “I promise if we have anything to do with it after the next election… we will reverse it.”

Reform’s leader Nigel Farage will soon address farmers at a farm in north London before heading towrds Westminster for a massive demonstration this afternoon.

A farmer has warned that Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid threatens Britain’s food security.

Father of three Ben Aveling, 39, described feeling “attacked” after the Chancellor’s October budget which heaped the levy on farmers.

Read the piece here.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is about to address farmers at a rally in north London.

They will then make their way towards Westminster where thousands of farmers are expected to protest against Rachel Reeves’s inheirtance tax raid.

Read Farage’s piece in the Express here.

Countryfile star Adam Henson has warned Rachel Reeves her inheritance tax raid “hurts” British farming.

The BBC presenter, 59, urged the Chancellor to “soften the blow” of her Budget by considering other “simple” alternatives.

Read the full story here.

Rachel Reeves must rethink her “ruinous” proposal before it is too late, campaigners say.

Mo Metcalf-Fisher, external affairs director for the Countryside Alliance, said: “It is difficult to find a Government policy that has prompted such wide-spread concern than that of Rachel Reeves’s disastrous family farm tax. Farmers want to get on with producing food for us to eat while maintaining the countryside we all know and love. Instead they are having to fight to save their livelihoods. The total breakdown between Whitehall and the countryside hurts the whole country. We are in London today to urge Rachel Reeves to see sense and rethink her ruinous proposals before it’s too late”.

Nigel Farage launched a furious attack on Labour’s nightmare inheritance tax raid on farmers as he backed the Daily Express crusade to protect rural communities.

The Reform UK leader will join tens of thousands of farmers on Monday in a mass “rural revolt”.

Read the story here.

Farmers are gearing up to hear Nigel Farage speak at a dawn rally in London.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is expected to speak to farmers ahead of their protest in Central London.

The politician wrote about the issue in today’s Express.

The tractor rally on Monday, organised by Save British Farming, comes as MPs debate an e-petition with more than 148,000 signatures calling to keep the current inheritance tax exemptions for working farms.

Labour has insisted it will not make a U-turn on its plans to introduce a 20% inheritance tax rate on farms worth more than £1 million.

The changes announced in the Budget are due to come into force in April 2026 and scrap an exemption which meant no inheritance tax was paid to pass down family farms.

Westminster is geareing up for a demonstration with thousands of farmers over Rachel Reeves’s Budget.

She announced sudden subsidy shifts agricultural property relief and busines property relief changes.

Thousands are expected to arrive in Whitehall for a rally this afternoon.

Follow this live blog throughout the day for the latest.