Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is standing in for Sir Keir Starmer.
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Farmers have threatened to escalate their protests unless the chancellor meets them for talks over inheritance tax amid growing discontent among rural Labour MPs about the plans.
About 13,000 farmers took to the streets of Whitehall on Tuesday, with some bringing their tractors. But the environment secretary told the protesters they were “wrong”.
Some 1,800 National Farmers’ Union (NFU) members also lobbied their MPs in Westminster about the impact of the government’s plan to charge 20 per cent inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million.
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