Farmers ride tractors into central London in major protest over trade deals

Tractor-riding farmers have descended on Westminster to protest against trading arrangments they claim will “decimate” British farming and jeapordise UK food security.

Campaign groups Save British Farming and Fairness for Farmers of Kent have assembled a “go-slow” convoy around parliament with organisers expecting 50 to 100 tractors as well as other farm vehicles.

A few hundred people and six tractors sounding their horns were seen by The Independent at College Green at around 6.30pm on Monday.