The campaign groups Save British Farming and Fairness for Farmers of Kent have assembled for a ‘go-slow’ convoy and drive around Westminster which started at 6pm.

Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors advanced toward the HQ, hell-bent on having their complaints about costs, rules and bureaucracy heard by the EU.

Key Liberal National Party members have stood with Queensland farmers and landholders outside state parliament urging a rethink of large-scale renewables projects.

The empty shelves and rationing of eggs and vegetables that was seen in recent months is likely to be repeated for many fresh British chicken products, according to experts at the BPC.

The Countryside Alliance warned that a new ‘plant-based’ international treaty signed by several councils in the UK that promotes taxes on meat and bans the expansion of farms is a threat to British agriculture.