Luke Pollard: Fishers Have Every Right To Be Angry Over The Brexit Deal
The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations has dubbed the government s trade deal ar “miniscule, marginal, paltry, pathetic” | Adobe Stock
12 January
Labour s shadow environment secretary says that British fishers have been betrayed by Brexit – and he has a vision for how to turn their trade around. He talks to Georgina Bailey.
Luke Pollard is a fishing nerd. He knows it, his staff know it, and after 55 minutes talking with him over Zoom, I do too.
However, he believes that he is in a small minority in Parliament – you could count those among his colleagues who deeply understand fishing on one hand, he tells me. This is part of the reason why fishers have been “screwed”; not just by the Brexit trade deal, but by successive years of government policy that left fishing communities behind, he says.
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