{"id":596502,"date":"2025-11-27T05:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/596502\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T05:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:27:25","slug":"farage-makes-pledge-after-multiple-arrests-made-at-farmers-london-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/596502\/","title":{"rendered":"Farage makes pledge after multiple arrests made at farmers\u2019 London protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several farmers<\/a> were arrested in central London<\/a> after driving tractors into the capital for a Budget<\/a> day protest, defying police restrictions.<\/p>\n

Reform UK<\/a> has pledged to cover their legal defence, branding the arrests “outrageous”.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Police<\/a> had warned: \u201cAnyone breaching conditions by bringing vehicles, including tractors or agricultural vehicles, to today\u2019s farmers protest will be asked by officers to leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they refuse to comply with the conditions, officers will have to make arrests for offences under the Public Order Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the force said later on Wednesday: \u201cWe have already spoken to a number of individuals this morning to advise them of the conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority have listened to officers and complied with the conditions, however, several arrests have been made.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reform leader Nigel Farage<\/a> said: \u201cThe farmers\u2019 planned protest on Whitehall<\/a> has been cancelled by the police at the last moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have come to London and are now being arrested. This is outrageous.<\/p>\n

\u201cReform UK will provide full legal support to every farmer protesting peacefully today.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than a dozen tractors could be seen parked outside Parliament<\/a> on Wednesday morning, with rush-hour traffic brought to a standstill and farmers repeatedly sounding the tractor horns while police stood watching.<\/p>\n

David Gunn, an arable farmer and agricultural contractor from near Sevenoaks<\/a> in Kent<\/a>, said he was protesting over the Government<\/a> move to put inheritance tax<\/a> on farm businesses worth more than \u00a31 million.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cInheritance tax is one reason, it\u2019s going to cripple the farmers, the small family farmers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s all the other taxes they\u2019ve been putting on us, and the prices we get for our produce and what it costs in the shop, we don\u2019t make any money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen there\u2019s food security, farmers are going out of business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"One<\/p>\n

One protester dressed as Santa had a \u2018naughty list\u2019 of Government figures (Jordan Pettitt\/PA)<\/p>\n

He said his message to Government was: \u201cSort the pledge out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou said in the manifesto you would look after the farmers, which you totally haven\u2019t, you\u2019ve ruined the countryside,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tyler Carter, 18, from Peterborough<\/a>, was also among the campaigners gathered in Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n

He held a sign reading: \u201cDear London sorry \u2026 I\u2019m here to fight for my future!\u201d and told the PA news agency: \u201cWe\u2019re fighting for our livelihood.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked what the reforms would mean for him, he said: \u201cIt means my boss will be out of a job, which means I will be out of a job.<\/p>\n

\"Tractors<\/p>\n

Tractors appeared on Whitehall ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves\u2019s Budget speech (Jordan Pettitt\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have worked hard for what we\u2019ve got and don\u2019t deserve to have it taken off us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Questioned on what he would say to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, he responded: \u201cHow dare you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Another farmer attended the event dressed as Father Christmas, with his tractor carrying a large spruce tree and bearing a sign that read: \u201cFarmer Christmas \u2013 the naughty list: Keir Starmer<\/a>, Rachel Reeves, David Lammy<\/a>, Diane Abbott<\/a>, Angela Rayner<\/a> & the BBC\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police officers speak to farmers taking part in the protest (Jordan Pettitt\/PA)<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s protest came as Ms Reeves faced pressure from farmers to axe plans to introduce inheritance tax on farming land and businesses.<\/p>\n

The Chancellor\u2019s plans to introduce a 20% rate on agricultural land and businesses worth more than \u00a31 million have become a political flashpoint for a sector struggling with rising costs, tough market conditions and worsening climate impacts.<\/p>\n

Last December, thousands of protesters gathered along Whitehall and angry farmers drove their tractors outside Parliament, demonstrating against the decision which farmers said put their businesses, futures and food security at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several farmers were arrested in central London after driving tractors into the capital for a Budget day protest,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[187517,748,393,4884,3121,257,135,384,386,16,15,46641],"class_list":["post-596502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-agricultural-vehicles","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-inheritance-tax","tag-london","tag-metropolitan-police","tag-nigel-farage","tag-reform-uk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-whitehall"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115620010982884728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596502","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=596502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}