Farmers are threatening to strike (Image: Getty)

       The Labour Government is reportedly drawing up emergency plans to deal with food shortages if farmers go on strike over the inheritance tax raid on farms by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

       Britain has been warned it could face its first-ever national farming strike over the tax. Welsh pressure group Enough is Enough called on "those who are able” to begin a week-long strike with the aim of stopping produce from leaving their farms.

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       And thousands of farmers are expected to protest in London on Tuesday. They claim the plans will destroy family farms across the country.

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       Transport secretary Louise Haigh said palns are being drawn up (Image: Getty)

       Now, Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has said that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will set out its contingency plans for ensuring food security over the winter and summer.

       Speaking on Sky's Sunday Morning show, Haigh said: "Defra will be setting out plans for the summer, for the winter – and setting out … contingency plans, and ensuring that food security is treated as the priority it deserves to be.”

       National Farmers’ Union (NFU) President Tom Bradshaw said he does not support withholding food as a way of protesting the tax. He said: “I don’t for one moment condone that anyone will stop supplying the supermarkets.

       NFU president Tom Bradshaw said he would sno support food witholding (Image: Getty)

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       “We saw during the Covid crisis that those unable to get their food were often either the most vulnerable, or those that have been working long hours in hospitals [such as] nurses.

       “That is something we do not want to see again, but this is in the Government’s control: they can sit down, they can talk to us and work a way through this.”

       “That is not an NFU tactic – we do not support emptying supermarket shelves – but I do completely understand the strength of feeling that there is amongst farmers.

       “They feel helpless today, and they’re trying to think of what can they do to try and demonstrate what this means to them. So I understand their strength of feeling, but we are not supporting that action.”

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       Meanwhile, a countryside champion has warned that Labour faces disaster at the ballot box if it loses support by forcing farming families to pay inheritance tax.

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       Mathew Wright blames farmers for Rachel Reeves' hated Inheritance Tax grab

       240 Comments

       Angry farmers warn Keir Starmer 'don't bite hand that feeds you' amid food inflation fears

       40 Comments

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       50 Comments

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       830 Comments

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       240 Comments

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       40 Comments

       Farmers have 'nothing to lose' as contingency plans drawn up over food shortage fears

       131 Comments

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       681 Comments

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       72 Comments

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       7 Comments

       Furious farmers send Labour into panic as they fear 'dirty protest' at weekend

       1306 Comments

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       Furious farmers threaten to blockade ports and starve supermarkets amid death tax row

       71 Comments

       Nigel Farage issues eight-word warning to Labour over ‘heartless' family farm tax

       112 Comments

       Rachel Reeves warned that UK farmers are 'on the brink' after hated tax change

       33 Comments

       Labour's 'war on farmers' sparks protest over inheritance tax and food security risks

       50 Comments

       Hated farm tax plunges Labour into grave danger of electoral disaster in rural areas

       105 Comments

       We must stand shoulder to shoulder with our farmers - they need us now

       26 Comments

       If Ministers don't listen, this could be the end of UK farming as we know it

       8 Comments

       Police impose tractor ban on farmers planning mass protest over inheritance tax changes

       830 Comments

       Farmer protests LIVE: Huge tractor convoy masses as Keir Starmer faces huge backlash

       1293 Comments

       Mathew Wright blames farmers for Rachel Reeves' hated Inheritance Tax grab

       240 Comments

       Angry farmers warn Keir Starmer 'don't bite hand that feeds you' amid food inflation fears

       40 Comments

       Farmers have 'nothing to lose' as contingency plans drawn up over food shortage fears

       131 Comments

       Furious farmers call for huge national strike over Rachel Reeves' tax raid

       681 Comments

       Labour investigating true figure of farmers impacted by inheritance tax raid in budget

       72 Comments

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       7 Comments

       Furious farmers send Labour into panic as they fear 'dirty protest' at weekend

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       Baroness Mallalieu said the Government has “sacrificed goodwill”. She wants minsters to reconsider their decision to impose a 20% inheritance tax on farms worth more than ￡1million from April 2026.

       Shadow Environment Secretary Victoria Atkins said: “Food security is national security. Labour’s family farm tax is both heartless and illogical.”