'We're not being listened to!' Farmer blasts Labour in heated rant: 'Not really achieved anything'

Speaking to GB News, Farmer Esther Rudge said: "We are so frustrated. We're not being listened to.

"All the major supermarkets now have come in and said to the Government, please reconsider. You've got lots of experts telling them and independent experts saying this needs to be reconsidered.

"They've not really achieved anything with it there's still a loophole, although it's a smaller loophole. And then also they're going to be putting farmers out of business, so it just doesn't I don't know what it achieves. It needs to be reconsidered."

She added: "The next step is to keep keeping it actually in the forefront of the news.

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"So channels like yours are valuable, we're still there in the forefront and we're actually there communicating with the public.

"One good thing that's come out of this is actually we're talking to the public who are our customers at the end of the day.

"Part of this is born out of a lack of understanding of how farming works."

Farmers gathered at locations including the former Maze Prison site, with tractors bearing posters reading "Save Our Family Farms".

Farmers across Britain also organised food collections and donations in towns and cities to demonstrate the farm-to-fork connection.

The Country Land and Business Association estimates the tax change "could harm" 70,000 UK farms.

The Government maintains the reforms will make inheritance tax fairer, stating only the wealthiest 500 estates will pay more each year.

Environment Secretary Steve Reed claimed "three-quarters of farmers will pay nothing as a result of the changes".

A petition against what farming unions called an "unjust policy" gathered more than 270,000 signatures.

The petition was delivered to 10 Downing Street by NFU president Tom Bradshaw and NFU Cymru president Aled Jones and was supported by the presidents of all four UK farming unions, who have vowed to continue their campaign until the tax receives proper scrutiny.