Farmers from around Surrey and Hampshire will be swapping their fields for the streets of London on Tuesday in protest at inheritance tax plans.

Tens of thousands of farmers from around the UK are expected to march tomorrow in anger at the so-called “tractor tax” proposed by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the autumn budget.

Her proposals – also labelled a “family farm tax” and called “anti-rural” by some opponents – would mean that farms worth more than £1million will face an inheritance tax rate of 20 per cent.

It’s claimed that 70,000 UK farms will be impacted by the capping of inheritance tax reliefs, leading to fears that family farms will have to sell land to pay tax bills.

More than a dozen “angry farmers” have jointly signed a letter written to Farnham & Bordon MP Greg Stafford in protest of the Chancellor’s proposals.

* The Herald & Post has also spoken to several farmers around south east Surrey and East Hampshire who are set to join tomorrow’s protests in central London.

We’ll be running a live blog tomorrow on our websites as two of our reporters will be accompanying farmers from our area on their march around the capital.