The Met Police have confirmed there were no arrests at today’s protest, after a Public Order Offence was issued banning those participating from turning up in their tractors.

The Reform UK leader has let rip at Labour.

The Shadow Environment Secretary says Labour must reverse its inheritance tax hike on farms

Scottish Conservative MP Harriet Cross warns: “Elderly farmers will hit hardest by the family farm tax. Many won’t have time to pass on their farms,despite decades of feeding the nation and following advice. The family farm tax is cruel,heartless and so damaging to farming, rural communities & food security.”

Greg Smith, the Conservative MP for Mid Buckinghamshire, has joined the protest

The Conservative leader also pushes for a reversal of the inheritance tax raid on farmers, warning that our national security is in danger if we we can’t feed the nation.

She says: “Food security is national security. As our world gets more uncertain and more hostile, we need to grow and eat more food here at home. For the sake of our national resilience, Keir Starmer needs to reverse the Family Farms Tax.

The protests will take place from around midday, heading towards Trafalgar Square, turning right into Northumberland Avenue, along the Embankment and back into Whitehall via Westminster Bridge Road and Parliament Street.

A rally will take place in Whitehall at 1.30pm and it is expected to finish around 3pm.

A Government spokesperson said: “Our commitment to farmers remains steadfast.

“This Government are investing £5 billion into farming, the largest budget for sustainable food production in our country’s history. We are going further with reforms to boost profits for farmers by backing British produce and reforming planning rules on farms to support food production.

“Our reform to Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs will mean three quarters of estates will continue to pay no inheritance tax at all, while the remaining quarter will pay half the inheritance tax that most people pay, and payments can be spread over 10 years, interest-free. This is a fair and balanced approach which helps fix the public services we all rely on.”

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that from April 2026, combined agricultural and business property assets up to £1 million will still receive 100% relief but anything above that will be taxed at an effective rate of 20%.

Farmers have previously told the Daily Express that they face a variety of issues, from rising production costs and the pressure of cheaper imported goods to extreme weather and now the new proposed policy changes.

Henry Tufnell, Labour MP for South and Mid-Pembrokeshire, objects to his party’s policy, speaking out in support of farmers.

“Me and a number of other MPs who are part of this new, broader, coalition within the Labour Party have to stand up and inform government that this is affecting our constituents,” he told Sky News.

The National Farmers Union, who support the protests, said: “The Pancake Day Rally aims to be bigger and better and show MPs and the public farming’s determination not to accept the cruel family farm tax.”

Gigantic combine harvesters have arrived in London.

The Met Police has banned all “mechanically propelled vehicles” following the hundreds of tractors which descended on the capital in previous protests.

The protest will be largely on foot as police are allowing only a limited number of tractors after last month’s demonstration caused traffic delays.

Farmers who bring tractors in breach of the conditions could face arrest.

Organiser and fourth generation farmer Olly Harrison, 43, said food growers will march through London with harvesters, tractors and sprayers to explain the levels of investment needed in agriculture “just to produce something simple like a pancake”.

He said: “We’re going to explain, as it’s never been more important, especially with what’s been going on in the world now with the threat of war, how important food is and the risk that we’re taking with the amount of money invested, and why this inheritance tax is not sustainable to keep people farming.

“We need an exemption for more people that are not going to live seven years; that is what the day is all about. We still need to remind the government that food has to be grown in the UK to the highest level possible to give us some sort of security.”

Thousands of farmers will on Tuesday march to show MPs and the public that the sector does not accept Rachel Reeves’s “cruel” family farm tax.

The Pancake Day Rally, from midday in Westminster, aims to be “bigger and better” than previous protests against the Government’s changes to inheritance tax rules.