All around Westminster there are now hundreds of people of all ages - from toddlers to elderly men with walking sticks - converging on Whitehall in the perishing cold ahead of the protest, our reporter at the scene Lydia Chantler Hicks writes.

Starmer's farmer-alarmer in the Budget could crystalise anger over ministers’ perceived ignorance about agricultural life.

First unveiled in chancellor Rachel Reeves ’s Budget, the plans to impose inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1m have sparked fury among rural communities, who have contested the government’s assertion that small family farms will not be impacted by the changes.