Jeremy Clarkson shares fears for children if doctors | UK News

Jeremy Clarkson has hit out at what he described as the “absurd tax on the dead” imposed by Labour, which has left him with a dilemma over his end-of-life plans. The subject could have been introduced into focus for the previous Top Gear star after going through a sequence of health scares in current years.

In October 2025, Jeremy was rushed to hospital after he turned “poorly” with an undisclosed sickness. Prior to this, the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? presenter underwent emergency coronary heart surgical procedure in which he had two stents fitted to unblock important arteries, main him to overhaul his diet.

In his latest column, the Diddly Squat Farm proprietor said that while considering what he ought to go away to his three grown-up chilren, Emily, Finlo and Katya, in his will, he realised how dying is “unbelievably complicated” now.

After going through what music he would really like to be performed at his funeral and bequeathing household heirlooms, the 65-year-old TV star admitted he had initially believed that all the laborious work was performed.

However, Jeremy’s accountants then reminded him that he needed to make a determination on what his household ought to do if he turns into “incapacitated” in the future due to sickness.

He wrote in The Sunday Times: “I therefore have to pick a couple of trustworthy and sensible people and then leave instructions for how they should take care of business.

“But I’m suggested that really, they aren’t instructions. It’s just steerage. All I can say is that I ‘would want not to be in a vegetative state’ and that I might ‘favor it if no heroic efforts’ had been made to convey me spherical after a extended deprivation of oxygen.”

Jeremy went on to confess he’s worried that his children, whom he shares with ex-wife Frances Cain, will be burdened with a “whopping tax invoice” if they obey his wishes and switch off any potential life support.

Taking another swipe at the Labour authorities’s Inheritance Tax insurance policies as he debated the concept, Jeremy urged: “So how’s this for a situation? I’ve some sort of medical issue and develop into a cabbage.

“If the people I choose to be my representatives do as I ask and pull the plug, then my kids will be hit with a whopping tax bill. If they wait till Starmer and Reeves have gone and someone sensible is in the driving seat, they won’t.”

Inheritance Tax is a tax on the property (the property, money and possessions) of somebody who’s died, which can apply if the worth of a individual’s property is above the £325,000 threshold.

This is not the first time that Jeremy has been outspoken about Labour’s Inheritance Tax reforms, notably when it comes to the impression on farmers, just lately arguing that many farms will still be negatively affected, despite chancellor Rachel Reeves raising the brink following a number of protests.

The former Grand Tour host beforehand said in his column for The Times that farming inheritance needs to be thought of in another way, as “you can’t just sell a farm to someone and expect them to have the first clue about how it should be run.”

However, authorities ministers have stood by the tax, saying that the reforms may raise about £300m a yr, while only affecting a minority of farms.