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Downing Street described the Monday night meeting as “constructive”.

Chancellor understood to be determined to keep policy despite Treasury analysing ways to soften impact

British farmers say they will be forced to sell farms under inheritance tax reforms.

At 5.30am, as farmers climbed aboard an NFU bus in Cirencester, Alex Ross joined them in the biggest battle for the industry in years

Farmers flocked to Whitehall to protest against changes to inheritance tax and other measures in last month’s Budget.

The Treasury says around 500 estates a year will be affected by the changes.

More than 10,000 farmers descended on Westminster on Tuesday to urge the government to backtrack on the levy

It is the post-Budget battle the Government did not necessarily anticipate: Labour versus the farmers. The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) held a mass lobby of MPs this morning, calling on their representatives to oppose the imposition of inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million. That is not all.…

Celebrities including Jeremy Clarkson, who warns the policy is a ‘blunderbuss’ that has hit farmers, joined a rally in Whitehall.

But NFU chief Tom Bradshaw accuses Environment Secretary Steve Reed of treating farmers with ‘contempt’

British farmers massed in London on Tuesday for protests against controversial government plans to change inheritance tax rules for land ownership, which they claim threatens to break up the sector and hit food production.