returned to screens with and Ben Leo, who was sitting in for an absent .
The presenters were joined by the Conservative Shadow Chancellor to discuss in protest over the government’s refusal to overturn .
The politican said: “I think the Labour Party, the government have declared war on the rural communities, right across our country.
“This is an iniquitous tax. It is preventing family farmers from handing on their farms as they’ve always planned to their children and their grandchildren.”
Jenrick predicted: “It’s going to cause havoc across the countryside,” adding: “We, the Conservative Party, have been opposing it tooth and nail, and we’re going to keep pressing the case in Parliament urging the Government that its not too late for them to change course.”
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Robert Jenrick blasted the new inheritance tax rule on GB News (Image: GB News )
Isabel asked: “Do you recognise that there is a problem, there are these wealthy land owners, many farmers are describing them as city boys who’ve had huge bonuses going out, buying up parts of our British countryside and avoiding paying inheritance tax.
“Is it the methodology that you don’t like or do you not object to that either?”
Jenrick responded: “The Labour Party could have taken action against wealthy city financiers buying large farms purely to reduce their inheritance tax bill but they’ve done something quite different to that, they’ve set the threshold at a low level so this is affecting small family farms.”
“The types of farms up and down our country who have a couple of hundred acres, who are getting up first thing in the morning, working hard, and trying to protect our countryside, our food security, they are the lifeblood of our rural communities.”
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The Government was blasted on GB News (Image: GB News)
The MP added: “I think these people deserve our respect and deserve the right to hand their farm on to their children and grandchildren.”
“The Labour Party do not appreciate the rural life, in fact, this is a whole pattern of measures that the Labour Party have brought in, everything from attacking the farmers to changing how buses work in rural communities.”
As a result, hundreds of farmers are descending on Westminster in their tractors today in fury at Labour’s inheritance tax raid.
As many as 300 tractors will storm central London for the “RIP British Farming” protest organised by Kent Fairness for Farmers and Save British Farming.