‘You can’t keep coming for agriculture’: farmers prepare to protest over bitter budget harvest

Farmer Freya Morgan calls the government’s inheritance tax changes a ‘tax on farming’. Photograph: Freya Morgan

A wave of wellies is preparing to pound the streets of Westminster on Tuesday, as groups of farmers bring their anger over the government’s budget changes to inheritance tax to the capital.

For decades, agricultural properties have been passed down tax-free to heirs, but that will change from April 2026, when farms and other business property are brought under the remit of inheritance tax.