Farmers For Action hold week three of NI county protests on IHT Phase 2
Farmers For Action NI held a protest outside the Tesco Superstore in The Meadows, Portadown, Co Armagh, last week, making it the third week of NI county protests on what is being called IHT Phase 2 Campaign across the UK.
Sean McAuley, FFA, stated: “Despite poor weather conditions, flyers were distributed to members of the public as they left the store, and they were well received. The star of the protest was 12-year-old young farmer Blake who braved the cold and rain with enthusiasm, carefully keeping the leaflets dry as he supplied them to the team and went the extra mile by handing them directly to Tesco shoppers.”
William Taylor, FFA, commented: “The whole aim of the Phase 2 IHT Campaign protest across the UK is to facilitate 11 of the largest UK food retailers to turn over a new leaf and reply to four fair questions, already sent to their CEOs, with a request to reply by 1 March 2026.
“Those questions in short were - ‘Will you lobby government to remove IHT?’ Already Tesco and Asda have stated publicly that they will lobby government for a pause / rethink on IHT.”
The next question for the 11 largest UK food retailers was – ‘Will you lobby government to put in place a UK-wide Farm Welfare Bill to return family farmers a minimum of the true cost of production inflation linked plus a margin for their produce?’
Thirdly, ‘will they lobby government to stop large UK food corporates accelerating climate change with international food swaps’.
Finally, ‘will they lobby government to end importing sub-standard food and retailing with sub-standard and misleading labelling information’.
Next week Farmers For Action will be protesting at Tesco in Cookstown, Co Tyrone – see their Facebook page for further information.