The Met Police have made several arrests at the protests due to 'refusal to comply with the conditions'.
These conditions involve bringing tractors or agricultural vehicles to the protests.
We have already spoken to a number of individuals this morning to advise them of the conditions.
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) November 26, 2025
The majority have listened to officers and complied with the conditions, however, several arrests have been made.
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Reform leader Nigel Farage has offered legal support to every farmer protesting peacefully today.
The planned farmers' protest on Whitehall has been cancelled by the police at the last moment.
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) November 26, 2025
They have come to London and are now being arrested. This is outrageous.
Reform UK will provide legal support to every farmer protesting peacefully today.
Farmers from across the UK have headed to London as the industry continues to demand fairness and a future for British farming.
It comes after the Met Police disrupted farmers' plans, stating whilst protesters would be able to attend conditions have been put in place to prevent protesters from bringing vehicles, including tractors or other agricultural vehicles to the protest.
Farmers attending the event accused the police of 'two tier policing' expressing frustration and anger at the last minute change, when many groups had already set off.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce the Autumn Budget 2025 at 12:30pm today (November 26) as farmers gather outside Westminster waiting to hear whether their year long lobbying effects and protests have been heard and the changes to Inheritance Tax reversed.
There are suggestions online that we've banned farmers from protesting tomorrow. That's not correct.
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) November 25, 2025
Farmers are welcome to protest, but we must balance the impact protests have on the rights of all Londoners.
That is why we have put conditions in place to prevent serious…
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Shadow Farming Minister, Robbie Moore is at the protest calling on the Chancellor to make the right decision and listen to the community.
"It is budget day and we are here in Whitehall and many of our farming community have quite rightly come from all across the country both on tractors and on the forager but also on foot," he said.
"At last minute the met police, under instruction I suspect from either the home office or the London Mayor, have cancelled that protest last minute. Now we have nowhere for our farmers and those tractors to be parked up.
"There is a huge amount of anger, frustration, anxiety, amongst our farming community, quite rightly because of the family farm tax, the family business tax that is going to be implemented.
"I only hope that later on today, when the Chancellor gets to her feet, she listens to our farming community and takes on board the catastrophic consequences that her budget is going to have and she can change course, it is not too late. but let us hope she does that when she gets onto her feet later today."
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Despite the Met Police banning tractors, many have still turned up but with restrictions causing them to park up on Kings Cross.
Big Brother star Cameron Kinch is also at the protest: "It is important to make our voice clear. We are just farming as we all know, it is too important not to have our voice heard by this government on Budget day.
"They need to think about the actions, what they actually do in their budget and how it is going to affect food production in this country."
Police are now moving tractors from Trafalgar Square. Met Officers said they are not stopping people protesting but vehicles can not be allowed to disrupt public spaces.
"You broke the trust of every farmer in the nation with Inheritance Tax. It has broken us."
Thit is Scottish Farmer William Murray's message to the Prime Minister.
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Cath and Ben Wordsworth arable farmers from outside York. The family has been farming the land since 1948 and have come today to make a stand.
"It is our livelihood we felt we had to come down.
"It is terrible and not just farmers will be affected it is other businesses too. Machinery dealers and haulage.
"The Government does not understand."
Tractors and protestors poured into the capital to sound their horns ahead of the Budget announcement at 12:30pm.
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