Shropshire Star

'If they're not going to listen we're going to have to push harder' - Farmers' warning after latest 'go-slow' protest

More than 100 county farmers joined the latest 'go-slow' protest against government inheritance tax plans.

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Today (January 10) a convoy of tractors led their second protest on one of the county's busiest roads - driving from Shrewsbury's Halls Livestock Market to Dobbies Island on the A5 and back again.

Scores of farmers turned up for the latest protest. Picture: Jamie Ricketts
Scores of farmers turned up for the latest protest. Picture: Jamie Ricketts

The protest, one of several rallies across the country, follows a previous 'go-slow' rally from the same location in December.

It comes as farmers continue to express anger at the Government's planned changes to inheritance tax.

Last November, an estimated 13,000 people descended on Whitehall in London to protest against the changes.

Scores of farmers turned up for the latest protest. Picture: Jamie Ricketts
Scores of farmers turned up for the latest protest. Picture: Jamie Ricketts

Alan Hughes, who farms just outside Leintwardine on the Shropshire border, said there was huge opposition to the changes.