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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Hughes

Starmer forced to abandon visit to building site after tractor-driving farmers protest with musical horns

Sir Keir Starmer was forced to cut short a visit to promote his housing policies after a noisy protest by tractor-driving farmers.

Around a dozen agricultural vehicles blocked the road near a housing project in Milton Keynes while the PM chatted to workers.

The tractors’ musical horns could be heard blaring across the building site shortly after Sir Keir arrived.

It is the latest in a series of protests staged by farmers in response to the budget’s changes to inheritance tax.

Farmer Richard Miles said: “We are not being listened to at all, that’s why we feel we have to come and see him in person.”

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