Thousands brave plummeting temperatures to protest against plans they claim could bring the death of their farms

• Starmer denies mounting class war as farmers claim they have been ‘betrayed’

Honking tractors carrying young farmers and a sea of people clad in tweed and wellies signalled the countryside had come to the capital on Tuesday to demand the scrapping of Labour’s budget changes to inheritance tax on agricultural businesses.

It would have taken more than plummeting temperatures and sleet to put off the thousands of food producers, many used to working in all conditions, from travelling from across the UK to Westminster.