More than 90 tractors had set off from Ipswich for protest

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Farmers hooted their horns and waved as they finished their procession through Suffolk at the Port of Felixstowe on Monday (November 24).

More than 90 tractors started off from Ipswich before heading down the A14 to Felixstowe and completing a loop around the Dock Spur roundabout and returning to the A14.

They were protesting against government plans to impose farm inheritance tax on them from April next year.

READ MORE: Public show support as farmers take tax protest to Ipswich

The farmers were protesting against changes to farm inheritance tax rules (Image: Newsquest)

They took a symbolic tour of both of Suffolk's docks to highlight how, in their opinion, UK farm produce was being undermined by cheap imports.

Some of the passing tractors bore signs, including one which read: "Since I could walk, my passion and purpose is farming.

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"Don't take our livelihoods. Save British farms."

Most of the tractors had the union flag on the front, with one bearing the slogan: "Back British farming."

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