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Now that she owns Jeremy Clarkson (net worth £55m) Victoria Derbyshire's family have to pay inheritance tax on him when she dies.

BBC Newsnight@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans. #Newsnight

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I’m really not on one side or the other here but, apart from the “typical BBC” nonsense, he’s right isn’t he? As he says, he’s not there out of concern for himself; he’s rich and will stay that way. His belief is farmers will suffer.

The audacity of quoting things that he has said back at him just to catch him out. I suppose if you don’t want to be accused of only buying a farm to avoid paying inheritance tax, you probably shouldn’t say it out loud to say a Times journalist. Must remember that 🤪

I’ve been wondering what a Day on Clarkson Farm would read like? 5.00 Up with the farmyard cock. I tell him “Hammond, it’s time you found your own place to live!”

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If they would want to keep the farm in the family they can already pass it to the next generation. But they won't because they have no intention to continue but selling off to the next tax dodger. Farms are terrible asset apart from the loophole.