FARMER and grower members of the NFU will meet their MPs in Parliament next week, urging them to ask the Chancellor to reconsider changes to Inheritance Tax.

Farmer and grower members of the NFU are going to London on Tuesday, November 19, to meet with their MPs to explain the impacts of this policy change on their farms, on British farming and on food supply, and to urge them to ask the Chancellor to reconsider these measures.

The mass lobby is taking place at Church House Westminster, with 1,800 NFU members already having registered their intention to come.

There is also a second complementary event in London on the same day, which is organised by a group of farmers. The NFU says it supports members and farmers if they wish to attend this rally but the NFU is not responsible for organising it.

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said: "Please don't miss the opportunity to engage with your MP, because they are the ones that ultimately have to get the government to take a different stance on this. You can do both events. We're working in a co-ordinated fashion and I really look forward to seeing you on November 19.”

The NFU continues to urge members to get in front of their MP, look them in the eyes and tell them from the heart how the changes to the APR will affect farming and growing businesses.

Since the Autumn Budget was announced, the NFU has been working flat-out to make the case to Treasury and wider government that the decision it has made to change Agriculture Property Relief and Business Property Relief must be over-turned, and to corral public and media support for farmers.

The NFU believes that the Treasury has built this policy on the wrong data and the changes it proposes will not deliver what it wants to achieve. It will not protect family farms, it will destroy them.

Within only four days of being launched, the NFU's campaign to Stop the Family Farm tax had secured the support of more than 160,000 people, and millions more are expressing their concern across social media. And in the media, there have been more than 2,500 stories across national and regional press.

Behind the scenes, the NFU has represented members’ shock, anger and fear to ministers, along with the evidence of why this policy doesn’t work.