Keir Starmer was forced to cut short a visit to promote his government’s housing policies after he was drowned out by noise from a nearby farmer’s protest. Around a dozen tractors blocked the road near a housing project in Milton Keynes while the Prime Minister chatted to workers,

Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to go into hiding and abandon a visit in Buckinghamshire due to a furious and noisy tractor protest. The Prime Minister was hoping to visit a housing development near Milton Keynes to promote his latest announcement of 100 new towns to alleviate the housing crisis.

More than 70 tractors drove in convoy around Gloucestershire earlier to protest against inheritance tax changes. In October, the government announced it would charge a 20% inheritance tax on agricultural assets worth more than £1m for the first time, although the threshold for some farmers to pay will be £3m.

Pictures from a Getty Images photographer have captured the scenes in Milton Keynes as protesters disrupted a planned media event with the Prime Minister.

Sir Keir Starmer was forced to cut short a visit to promote his housing policies after a noisy protest by tractor-driving farmers. Around a dozen agricultural vehicles blocked the road near a housing project in Milton Keynes while the PM chatted to workers.