GB News presenter Bev Turner has thrown her support behind protesting farmers, expressing strong views about food imports amid the ongoing inheritance tax row.
In a furious rant, the host said: "I don't want my chicken from China. It is ridiculous. There is no logic. I don't want to buy beef from New Zealand or chicken from China.
"It's a joke. But who's going to be brave enough in those meetings?
"Who is going to be brave enough to say, 'hang on a minute, I'm not on board with this net zero nonsense, because that takes absolute backbone'.
Bev fumed "‘I don’t want chicken from China"
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"And whether you're in a small company or in a Commons meeting room, that's a very difficult thing to say to stick your head out."
Her comments come as thousands of farmers descended on Westminster to protest against new inheritance tax rules announced in the Budget yesterday.
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An estimated 13,000 farmers from across the UK braved frosty weather conditions to demonstrate in Westminster.
The protesters are calling for the scrapping of plans to impose a 20 per cent inheritance tax from April 2026 on farms worth more than £1m.
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) warns that the tax changes could force many family farms to be sold to pay tax bills. The changes were implemented without any consultation from the farming community, the NFU claims.
Television personality Jeremy Clarkson joined the farmers' protest, urging the government to reverse its decision.
Jeremy Clarkson has blasted the government over its decision to cap farmers' IHT reliefINSTAGRAM/JEREMY CLARKSON
Kicking off his speech at the protest yesterday, Clarkson began: "I am not supposed to be talking but we have got a few things to say. I am going to start with a bit of honesty.“I lived in London for 25 to 30 years and when I was here, like a lot of people who live in cities and go on Twitter, I thought farmers drove around in Range Rovers, moaning, until February and then you all went skiing.
“And then about five years ago I started farming and I have come to understand just how unbelievably difficult it is and complicated and dangerous and cold, very cold. Even when we’re harvesting it is cold.”
Bev branded it "a joke"
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The former Top Gear presenter continued: “I know a lot of people all across the country, all walks of life took a bit of a kick on the shin from the budget. You lot got a knee in the nuts and a light hammer blow to the back of the head.
“We had pickup trucks being reclassified as company cars, 211 percent tax rise there. £50 carbon tax on a bag of fertiliser.
"The basic farm payments altered in such a way, that we are getting a lot less than we thought we were going to get."
