‘They can go to hell!’ Nigel Farage takes aim at Climate Change Committee in fresh support for farmers: ‘Rural economy is under threat’

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has launched a scathing attack on the Climate Change Committee as he offered fresh support to the farming community, warning that the “rural economy is under threat”.

Farmers across Britain have descended on Westminster today in a “pancake rally” against Labour’s inheritance tax raid, as the Government’s war on farmers has so far yet to see a U-turn.

Speaking to GB News, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said that the rural community is being “completely ignored” by the Government.

Farage told the People’s Channel: “The whole of the rural economy, the whole of the rural way of life, is directly under threat from a Labour Government with a massive majority and a hugely urban mindset.

“The 15 per cent of people that live and work within the rural economy are being completely ignored by Westminster. That’s really right at the heart of this.”

Noting the recent report by the Climate Change Committee, which suggested Britons must cut down “two kebabs worth of meat a week” to help cut climate emissions, Farage stated that the country should be “eating more meat” to help out farmers in maintaining food security.

Farage fumed: “Eat more meat – eat more British produced meat. The Climate Change Committee, God help us.

“Do they actually know what’s going on in India and China and Indonesia? The world is going to burn eight billion tonnes of coal this year. I do not think eating good, good lamb, good beef, good pork, I can’t see any harm in it at all.”

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In a direct attack on the committee, Farage declared that he is going to “ignore them completely” and disregard their claims on lowering emissions.

Farage added: “They are hopelessly out of touch. They want to control. They literally want to stop us eating meat, stop us flying on holiday, stop us living their lives. Do you know what? They can go to hell.”

When pressed by presenter Emily Carver on what Reform UK’s policy would be on inheritance tax, Farage made clear that they would “get rid” of the tax completely.

Farage explained: “Inheritance tax is double taxation. People have paid tax on this already, why on Earth when they die should they be taxed again? We would get rid of inheritance tax.

“It’s a really nasty tax and it hits people at the most unpleasant part of their lives. They just lost their parents and suddenly the taxman is after them. So we would get rid of inheritance tax.”

In support of farmers, who were told to leave their tractors at home or face arrest, Farage said that they would ensure food production is “top of the list”, and would stop farmland being taken over by “ghastly” solar panels.

Farage concluded: “In terms of farming itself, we haven’t really quite readjusted from the fact we’ve left the European Union. Food production has to be at the top of the list.

“The other thing I would say is I just don’t want to see our farmland covered in ghastly solar farms, all produced in China with battery storage systems, many of which are now totally unsafe. So let’s farm our land, let’s do it to produce food. That’s going to be the primary goal.”