{"id":592793,"date":"2025-11-25T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/592793\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:23:13","slug":"farmers-protest-in-london-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/592793\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers&#8217; protest in London: Everything you need to know about the event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/newsletter_we_final_embed_desktop.png\" alt=\"WEST END FINAL\" width=\"158px\" height=\"158px\" class=\"sc-gytJtb kpUGLA\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Scheduled for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/autumn-budget-2025-live-updates-rachel-reeves-tax-rises-spending-b1259461.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> day of the budget<\/a>, farmers are planning another tractor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protest<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a>\u2019s streets, in response to proposed inheritance tax changes.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers are demanding \u201cfairness and a future\u201d, claiming that such reforms could put family-run farms out of business.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the heels of a similar protest in Ipswich on Monday, November 24, where over 100 tractors formed a procession along the A14 to Felixstowe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Budget Day, farmers from across the UK are driving to London to demand fairness and a future for British farming,\u201d write the organisers on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/farmers-to-london-budget-day-2025-tickets-1963584913334\">the event page<\/a>. \u201cThe current Inheritance Tax (IHT) system threatens family farms and rural livelihoods \u2014 it\u2019s time for change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s everything you need to know ahead of the farmers\u2019 protest.<\/p>\n<p>When is the London farmers\u2019 protest taking place?<\/p>\n<p>British farmers will unite in London on Budget Day on Wednesday, November 26 at 9.30am.<\/p>\n<p>The slow-moving convoy of tractors will head into central London, while protestors on foot will centre on Whitehall.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook group has been set up, with many smaller groups organising within it to travel to London together coming from as far as York to have their voices (and tractor engines) heard. <\/p>\n<p>A schedule for the day shows that speakers are also planned, including MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/alistair-carmichael\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alistair Carmichael<\/a> and Big Brother star and farmer Cameron Kinch.<\/p>\n<p>Why are farmers organising a protest?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/uk\/farmers-protest-rally-jeremy-clarkson-london-inheritance-tax-nigel-farage-b1194644.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dissatisfaction from farmers<\/a> stems from expected plans in the budget to place a 20% tax on inherited agricultural assets worth more than \u00a31 million from April 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The National Farming Union, representing over 44,000 farmers across the country, has warned that this could cause many family farms to sell land in order to afford the tax bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation we could find ourselves in now is that this ends up being a tax on tragic deaths, because the first period will be the elderly and then after that it&#8217;s going to be those who either haven&#8217;t planned or completely unplanned deaths which may well be younger, and then you&#8217;re facing the situation where there&#8217;s no spousal transfer so it could be passed down to the next generation who could be in their teens. Now is that a logical tax planning scenario?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With this latest change expected to be made in the autumn budget, the upcoming tractor march aims to put pressure on Rachel Reeves and the government ahead of the announcement.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/business\/money\/rachel-reeves-government-tom-bradshaw-emma-reynolds-labour-b1259173.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scheduled for the day of the budget, farmers are planning another tractor protest for London\u2019s streets, in response&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[801,748,393,6644,4884,257,18744,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-592793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-alistair-carmichael","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-farmers","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-protest","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115610321905747422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}