Angry farmers disrupt environment minister’s speech with loud tractor tax protest in Oxford

Angry farmers disrupted environment secretary Steve Reed’s speech in protest over Labour’s inheritance tax changes.

The group gathered outside the Oxford Farming Conference on Thursday (9 January), holding up signs reading: “Fight the tax, save our farms” and “stop the farm tax”.

Footage filmed by the Farmer’s Guardian, shows tractors lined up outside the building with loud horns blaring out.

Mo Metcalf-Fisher, spokesman for the Countryside Alliance which organised the demonstration, said Mr Reed’s bid to reset relations for the sector would not work, calling the changes to inheritance tax a “roadblock” to any other negotiations on policy with the countryside.