Carol Vorderman, 63, has taken aim at Jeremy Clarkson, 54, over his involvement in the farmers’ protest on Tuesday.
The Top Gear star joined thousands of farmers in London for the march, as they headed to Westminster to protest the new “tractor tax.” While Jeremy quickly became the face of the protest, former Countdown host Carol didn’t seem sold by his activism.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday morning, she reposted a Twitter post showing a photo of Jeremy, with text on top reading: “Man who told The Times in 2021 that he’d only bought his £4.25m farm to avoid paying inheritance tax to lead protest against inheritance tax [laughing emoji].”
The post called back to an interview Jeremy gave with The Times back in 2021, when he admitted that he bought his Diddly Squat farm to avoid paying inheritance tax. At the time, land wasn’t taxable, meaning that - unlike cash in the bank - the millions he poured into the farm could be passed on to his three children.
“That’s the critical thing,” he told The Times. “So rather than just have money in the bank, and get a statement with numbers written on it that gives no one any pleasure at all, you could derive a great deal of pleasure and pass it on to your children.”
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PA)Carol isn’t the one to throw his words back at him this week, after Jeremy got into a spat with BBC Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire when she asked him about his involvement in the march. After Jeremy told the interviewer he was there to “support the farmers,” she questioned: “So it’s not about your farm and the fact that you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”
Jeremy quickly got angry, and bit out: “You people... BBC. OK, let’s start from the beginning. I wanted to shoot, OK? That’s even worse, to the BBC, I wanted to shoot. Which comes with the benefit of not having to pay inheritance tax. Now I do.”
He then admitted he had a way around the tax anyway, saying: “But people like me will simply put it in a trust, and so long as I live for seven years, that’s fine. And as my daughter said, you will live for seven years. You might be in a deep freeze at the end of it, but you will live for seven years. But it’s incredibly time consuming to have to do that, and why should all these people have to do that?”
Alongside Jeremy, Carol took another dig at the super rich earlier this month. This time, Prince William and King Charles III were the target of her rage, after a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation showed the depth of their property ownership, tax-free deals, and rental payments amounting to hundreds of millions per year. On Twitter, Carol called the financial dealings “grubby.”
"Shocking. Sunday @thetimes & #Dispatches investigation into the grubby & secretive earnings of the Royal Family . Incl charging huge rents to Marie Curie & Macmillan charities WHICH THEY'RE PATRONS OF & which WE donate to. They get the money! The list is long,” she ranted as one of three posts on the topic.
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