If I was a Farmer I might blame Clarkson:
The 64-year-old, who fronts Prime Video’s Clarkson’s Farm, which documents the trials of farming on his land in Oxfordshire, wrote in a post on the Top Gear website in 2010: ‘I have bought a farm. There are many sensible reasons for this: Land is a better investment than any bank can offer. The government doesn’t get any of my money when I die. And the price of the food that I grow can only go up.’
Clarkson also told The Times in 2021 that avoiding inheritance tax was ‘the critical thing’ in his decision to buy land.