Keir Starmer was forced to go into hiding this morning and abandon a visit in Buckinghamshire due to a furious and noisy tractor protest. The Prime Minister was hoping to visit a housing development near Milton Keynes to promote his latest announcement of 100 new towns to alleviate the housing crisis.

The prime minister has been forced to leave a location in Buckinghamshire after a group of tractor-driving protesters descended on his visit and staged a loud demonstration. Keir Starmer was visiting a housing development to announce his plans to build new towns across England when a number of vehicles showed up.

Pictures from a Getty Images photographer have captured the scenes in Milton Keynes as protesters disrupted a planned media event with the Prime Minister.

Keir Starmer was forced to cut short a visit to promote his government’s housing policies after he was drowned out by noise from a nearby farmer’s protest. Around a dozen tractors blocked the road near a housing project in Milton Keynes while the Prime Minister chatted to workers,