GB News presenter Martin Daubney fought back tears following an emotional interview with the family of a farmer who took his own life over inheritance tax fears.

After GB News spoke with the relatives of John Charlesworth, who was found dead at his Yorkshire farm in November, Martin visibly struggled to maintain his composure on air.

The interview followed an inquest which ruled that the 78-year-old farmer had taken his own life due to financial stress caused by the government's inheritance tax changes.

Cattle farmer John Charlesworth, 78, who was known as Philip, was found dead in November at Broad Close Farm, near Barnsley. The Silkstone farm has been run by the Charlesworth family since 1957.

Martin Daubney fought back tears after the interview

After the inquest, John Charlesworth's son named Jonathan told GB News: "Well, it's a relief, in a way.

"It's never going to take away the loss of my dad. We think about him every day and think about what he did, why he did it, and the causes of it. That's never going to get any easier.

"But I think there is a little bit of closure after going through the coroner's court.

"It was nice to hear that the coroner actually accepted, that she agreed with what we've known all along, that he had ended his life basically because he was scared of the farm being taken out of our hands by the impending inheritance tax, and he just didn't know what that was going to entail at the time."

Verity, John's daughter, told GB News: "We didn't have many family holidays because my dad didn't want to leave the farm. We had a few, and we went away with other family members.

"But my dad, if he could, he was happiest on the farm and that's where he wanted his ashes spread. When I think of him, I think of him smiling.

"I really do. I think of him laughing. He had a dry sense of humor, and he had time. Being a farmer was always people coming and going, people visiting and things happening, and he was always chatting to people.

"We had so many comments from people after he died about what a great person he was, and they were all really genuine, really genuine comments."

His son added: "I was speaking to my dad two or three times a day, in person, having a cup of tea right up to the night before. The only topic of conversation was what is going to happen with this inheritance tax.

"How are we going to deal with it? We didn't know at that point how it was going to be implemented, what the thresholds were going to be, or anything.

The family spoke to GB News after the interview

"Whether it had come in on the day of the Budget, there was no information out there. You could Google it as much as you wanted, and it was all speculation.

"I truly believe my dad just woke up that morning and decided, the government's not beating me. They're not taking my farm."

After the interview, GB News host Martin Daubney held back tears as he said: "What do you say to that? What a moving testimony from the relatives, from Jonathan, from Verity. Thank you. Just so so moving."