Jeremy Clarkson has hit out at Rachel Reeves and the impact of her Autumn Budget in the latest series of Clarkson's Farm. The Amazon Prime reality show returned with a bang this week, and devoted fans are already racing through the opening four episodes. The tone of the new series was largely shaped by the 66-year-old's alarming health scare and the dramatic economic changes under the Labour government.

The former Top Gear host has been outspoken about the impact the Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget has had on UK farmers throughout filming. Now that the series has dropped, fans will see the real-life impact these changes will have on his beloved Oxfordshire farm.

During the first episode, the Grand Tour favourite reunites with his business adviser, Charlie Ireland, where they discuss the worrying changes set to hit UK farmers over the next 12 months. The dad-of-three certainly made his thoughts clear about the politician's actions in a furious rant with his businessman on the show.

As they walked into his office, a clip flashed up on the screen summarising the changes to UK inheritance tax law, before they discussed the consequences for British farming. Jeremy began: "She's claiming that only 73% of farms will be affected by the changes, which is nonsense.

"I mean, it's just not true. She's claiming it's only a tiny [portion], and it isn't. Anyone whose land and assets are worth more than a million is hit, so if you've got a hundred acres in Huddersfield and you've got a tractor and a combine harvester, you're being clobbered."

Charlie added: "In page three of the Sunday Times, some chap called Steven wrote about a herd of cows that have been there for five generations, they're a dairy herd in Leicestershire, farmed by the Eccleston family. They've got 600 cows; their 600 cows alone take them over the threshold. Just the cows, that's not the dairy parlour, that's not a tractor, that's not any of the implements."

Clarkson fumed: "Just the cows gets them over Rachel Reeves' [threshold], and she's sitting there with a straight face saying only 27% of farms are affected. It's not true. If you have a rich person who's made a lot of money in investment banking and buys land so that they don't have to pay inheritance tax, I can understand - I don't agree with it - but I can understand why people would say that was unfair.

"And I can see why Rachel Reeves would come after people like that, the rich people who have bought land in the countryside, i.e. me. But she's just got a blunderbus and fired at the investment bankers or James Dyson, who's the Hoover man with eight billion acres. She's aimed for him, but she's hit all the farmers."

However, Charlie interrupted the TV presenter, admitting that the "bad news" doesn't end there. He explained: "That's the headline of the budget, if you read down into the budget, you're going to have a carbon tax on your fertiliser in 2027, she's gonna tax fertiliser.

"We're going to be paying between £50 and £75 per tonne on fertiliser. But the strange thing is, when you import wheat from somewhere else, it doesn't have all this on it. UK farmers will have these taxes." The host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire warned that if nothing changes, this could lead to a major decline in the farming industry.

Clarkson explained: "So people like bakers will just say, 'We can't afford to buy British wheat, we'll buy Canadian wheat where none of this applies'. And then Defra released a statement on the same afternoon saying that the 2025 basic payment would be cut by 76%, so you're going to get 24%.

"The basic payments were supposed to be phased out over three years. She's saved half a billion from next year from farming alone in cashflow. If only I knew someone I could marry who was Irish", he chucled wryly. The next episode of Clarkson's Farm will be available to stream on Amazon Prime from June 10.