Dominic Raab insists ministers are trying to fix post-Brexit border ‘teething problems’ as the Scottish fishing industry warns many firms are days from collapse Scottish fishing industry has blamed post-Brexit border checks for long delays Delays at border mean that goods are rotten on arrival when they get to the EU Dominic Raab said Government … Read more
British patrol boat boards Irish trawler and stops it from fishing contested Rockall waters in first post-Brexit fisheries clash The Northern Celt was boarded and its skipper told he can no longer fish Skipper said a Scottish patrol vessel told him he couldn’t fish around Rockall Outcrop lies 260 miles west of Scotland’s Western Isles … Read more
Ministers finalise £100m post-Brexit package to revive British fishing fleet so it can land catches normally taken by the French and Dutch Ministers are finalising plans for a £100million post-Brexit fishing package The scheme was promised last month as the government faced criticism Fisherman said it compromised on important issues to finally secure a trade … Read more
Boris Johnson today boasted that the UK will have ‘prodigious’ quantities of extra fish thanks to his Brexit deal – despite admitting he had made concessions to the EU. The historic agreement struck with Brussels will mean Britain claws back 25 per cent of the bloc’s existing catch over the next five and a half … Read more
Boris Johnson today boasted that the UK will have ‘prodigious’ quantities of extra fish thanks to his Brexit deal – despite admitting he had made concessions to the EU. The historic agreement struck with Brussels will mean Britain claws back 25 per cent of the bloc’s existing catch over the next five and a half … Read more
Is UK now set to reel in a deal? Fishing pact with the EU is close… now MPs could vote on Brexit trade deal in DAYS Britain and Brussels appeared to be inching closer to an agreement on fishing Ministers drawn up ‘tentative’ plans to call MPs and peers back from Christmas Fishing compromise similar … Read more
No Deal Brexit looms as the EU mounts a last-minute ‘ambush’ over fishing rights and negotiations are ‘expected to finish by Christmas one way or another’ Government sources said it was ‘widely accepted’ no agreement was imminent No 10 was infuriated by ultimatum from EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier Would have allowed Brussels to impose … Read more
Ferries were confronted by a blockade of protesting fishing boats, care homes were shut down and a gang of bandits hijacked a vaccine shipment in a no-deal Brexit tabletop exercise. Post-Brexit wargame Operation Capstone also saw medicines heading for hospitals battling with mounting Covid-19 cases stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier yesterday warned there … Read more
Boris Johnson will hold fresh Brexit talks today after the latest bid to break the deadlock on fishing fell flat. The Prime Minister is expected to warn European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen that failure to accept Britain’s right to control its own fishing grounds will sink hopes of a trade deal. Mr Johnson … Read more
Sir Edward Heath is the Conservative Prime Minister who sold out Britain’s fishermen in 1973 to take us into what became the European Union. Boris Johnson does not want to be remembered as the one who sold them out to take us out. That is one of the main reasons for what appears to be … Read more