Farmers' protest in Newcastle Upon Tyne. (Image: Iain Buist/Newcastle Chronicle)

A Northumberland councillor has slammed the county's Labour MPs for their voting to impose inheritance tax on farmers. Farmers have fiercely opposed the introduction in last year's budget of a 20% rate on agricultural land and businesses worth more than £1m.

They claim that the re-introduction of Inheritance Tax Relief (IHT) will have a crippling impact on farms whose landholdings make them "asset rich but cash poor", though the Government says that it will only affect around 500 estates each year.

Guy Renner-Thompson, Conservative councillor for Bamburgh, was one of the organisers of a protest which saw farmers drive their tractors from Newburn to Newcastle on Sunday, November 23. Organisers had

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