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Politics latest: Farmers seen laughing behind minister as Jeremy Clarkson joins thousands at tax protest
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Jeremy Clarkson has joined opposition party leaders Kemi Badenoch, Ed Davey, and Nigel Farage for a huge protest in Westminster, rallying against the government's family farms tax plan - but ministers remain convinced most won't be affected.

The environment secretary is back in front of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in parliament, and is asked if he would be willing to U-turn on changes to inheritance tax that have so infuriated farmers.Steve Reed tells the committee: 'The decision's been taken in this case.'The thing I'm picking up is a lot of people who, based on the Treasury data, will not be affected by changes in APR , currently believe they will be.

Tax cash will help 'decrepit' NHSTory MP Sarah Bool tells the environment secretary that although he insists he is listening to farmers, he is actually 'listening with closed ears at the moment', and asks why the threshold for inheritance tax liability hasn't been set higher than £1m.Mr Reed replies the top issue for the country at large is the cost of living, followed by the 'decrepit' state of the NHS.

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