The home office decision to bring into effect, at less than 24 hour’s notice, a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to the use of transit visas in the fishing industry was raised last week at Prime Minister’s Questions in parliament. The timing…
PM rewrites fisheries policy on the hoof NGOs jumped upon comments made by prime minister Boris Johnson during a climate change question and answer session held with primary school children in the run-up to COP26, reports Andy Read. In his…
Johnson guarantees no Brexit fisheries and trade link ‘We’ll leave CFP by December 2020’ Prime minister Boris Johnson has pledged that fisheries will not be traded away in Brexit negotiations, and that access to markets will not be linked to…
Government blasted as industry locked into CFP for three more years A torrent of outrage, anger and disappointment spilled out from across the UK industry last week after the announcement of the Brexit transition deal that will lock the UK…
PM proposes two-year Brexit transition. Uncertainty over fisheries and EU must agree. The anticipated benefits for fishermen from Brexit could be delayed well beyond March 2019, after Theresa May proposed a two-year transition period in a major Brexit speech, reports…
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