Militant French farmers are offering to show their British counterparts how it’s done as they take to the streets over the Government’s inheritance tax raid.

French farmers have dumped manure and blocked roads in their latest round of protests this week, this time against the Mercosur trade deal between the EU and South American countries.

Serge Bousquet-Chassagne, the head of the militant Coordination Rurale union in the southwestern Lot-et-Garonne region, said he was happy to offer tips to British farmers.

“I’m prepared to receive my British farmer colleagues or to travel over there to lend a hand,” he said. “We have a lot of form when it comes to more radical forms of protest. We’re all in the same boat.”