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Watch: Young farmers on why they're protesting

Farmers are protesting in London over inheritance tax changes announced in the Budget, as the row grows over how many farms it might affect.

The National Farmers' Union calls the move “disastrous", whilst Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has insisted the "vast majority" of farms will be unaffected by the changes.

19 November 2024

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North London school welcomes farm animal guests

DJ Próvaí wearing a green, white and orange balaclava

'Kneecap win is a victory for freedom of expression'

Northern Ireland

Rachel Reeves

Watch: Reeves 'deeply proud' to be first female chancellor

Angela Rayner

Rayner 'will miss' Dowden 'battle of the gingers' exchanges

Luke Davies has been homeless in Bridgend county since he was released from jail

Rats ate my tent and soap, says homeless prisoner

Smoking in beer gardens could be banned

Should smoking outside pubs be banned?

Mum and daughter

What is the two-child benefit cap?

King Chalres

Labour's first King's Speech: What happened in 60 seconds

BBC reporter Clodagh Stenson sits on the roof of her narrowboat on the Oxford canal with a grass verge next to the tow path

Boating voters talk farming on canal tour

Calls to scrap the two-child welfare benefit were made in a TV debate

Next UK government urged to end child benefit cap

Tink Llewellyn explains the basics of the general election

What happens in a general election?

Jeremy Hunt at the House of Commons with a smaller photo inset of BBC News journalist Gareth Lewis

What does the Budget announcement mean for Wales?

Michael Gove

Watch: 'Who broke housing system?' Gove asked

Michael Gove

Personalities do matter in politics, says Gove

Ione Wells

Watch: Why Sunak’s Rwanda bill battle isn’t over

House of Commons

Watch: Moment Sunak wins Rwanda vote

Keir Starmer

Watch: The charade continues on Rwanda - Starmer

Jackie speaks about her HIV diagnosis

Watch: Can opt-out HIV tests help end new cases?

Rishi Sunak

Sunak: 95% of schools not impacted by concrete problems

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

We'll spend what it takes to ensure safe schools - Hunt

Angela Rayner standing in an office setting, wearing a black top, being interviewed by the BBC

Angela Rayner: I want the whole of England to have mayors

Angela Rayner: I want the whole of England to have mayors

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater in Parliament

Watch: Emotional scenes as MPs debate assisted dying

MPs have voted 330 to 275 in support of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, on which they were given a free vote.

Kemi Badenoch speaking in the Commons at PMQs

PMQs: Kemi Badenoch calls on PM to resign

PMQs: Kemi Badenoch calls on PM to resign

A graphic showing a 'job centre plus' sign overlaid on an image of people in office wear

How big is the problem of people not working?

BBC Verify’s Ben Chu looks at the government’s plans to ‘Get Britain Working’

John Prescott downing a pint in 1994

Watch: John Prescott downs a pint in five seconds

While on the campaign trail in 1994, the Labour stalwart lived up to his man of the people reputation.

John Prescott is pushed back against a wall by a protester; there is egg on Prescott's shoulder

Moment Prescott punched protester who threw egg at him

The then deputy prime minister was in Rhyl, north Wales, to speak at a Labour rally, in 2001.

John Prescott wearing a black suit and hanging out of a bus window

John Prescott: The political heavyweight who stewarded New Labour

The former deputy leader of the Labour Party, who later sat in the Lords, leaves a wife and two sons.

Darren Jones in BBC Political Thinking radio studio

My parents went without to feed me, says Treasury minister

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones talks to the BBC about his childhood.

Leading Tory party 'is the most enormous honour'

Kemi Badenoch has won the Conservative leadership race, replacing Rishi Sunak.

Henry Zeffman outside parliament wearing a suit and poppy pin

Henry Zeffman: How this Budget could change your life

Henry Zeffman: How this Budget could change your life

Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs

Starmer thanks Sunak for hard work, commitment and decency

This is the last time the former prime minister will appear at PMQs.

Treasury minister James Murray in the BBC Radio 4 Today programme studio

Minister asked five times if landlords count as 'working people'

Treasury minister James Murray was pressed on what makes someone a "working" person ahead of next week's Budget.

Head and shoulders picture of Rachel Reeves

'We must change the way we measure debt' - Reeves

The Chancellor has indicated that she will change the debt rules in the Budget to help fund new projects.

Baron Mackinlay of Richborough in formal robes shaking hands in the House of Lords.

'Bionic lord' takes up seat in Parliament

Former MP Craig Mackinlay becomes the first quadruple amputee to sit in the Lords.

Boris Johnson wearing a suit and headphones speaking into a mic in a BBC radio studio

Watch: Fiery exchange as Boris Johnson asked if he is a 'liar'

Boris Johnson rejects the notion that he is a 'liar'.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

I'm not worried about being unpopular, says Starmer

The PM tells the BBC's Chris Mason about the need to take "unpopular decisions" now.

Keir Starmer on stage at his party conference

Starmer's conference speech in under two minutes

Highlights of Keir Starmer's first party conference speech as prime minister.

Protester at Labour conference

Protester dragged out after interrupting Reeves speech

The protester accused the government of continuing to sell arms to Israel, briefly halting the chancellor's speech.

Nigel Farage

Farage: Some candidates did 'enormous harm' to Reform

Nigel Farage says his party's general election performance was marred by at best "loopy" and at worst "extremely racist candidates".

Ed Davey om a jet ski on still green water

Lib Dem leader arrives at conference by jet ski

Ed Davey arrives at Brighton conference by jet ski.