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Organisers urged protesters not to bring farm machinery into central London, though some tractors drove past Downing Street covered with signs saying “the final straw” and “no farmers, no food.”

Archived version: https://archive.li/6qCeT

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euronews.com%2F2024%2F11%2F20%2Fthousands-of-uk-farmers-descend-on-parliament-to-protest-against-inheritance-tax-hike

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[–] tankplanker 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's 3m of you are married and use all the allowances. Even then it's only on the amount over that and at half the usual rate, then you get ten years to pay it back.