An estimated 20,000 farmers and their families have taken part in a huge Westminster rally against Labour’s so-called “tractor tax”.Jeremy Clarkson was among the famous faces joining a day of protest which also saw hundreds of National Farmers’ Union members lobby MPs against Labour’s inheritance tax shake-up announced in last month’s Budget.

Starmer's farmer-alarmer in the Budget could crystalise anger over ministers’ perceived ignorance about agricultural life.

British farmers have descended on Parliament to protest a tax hike they say will deal a “hammer blow” to struggling family farms