THE UK Government has rejected claims that Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal has sold out Britain s fishermen. Under the terms of the agreement hammered out on Christmas Eve, 25% of EU boats fishing rights in UK waters will be transferred to the UK fishing fleet, over a five-and-half year transition period. Allowing boats to “continue to enter the waters of the other party until 2026 would bring the social and economic benefits of a further period of stability”, the deal says. After that period comes to end the share of fish allowed to be caught by UK fishermen will rise to around two-thirds.
Stronger? Gove talks up five-year staged process for UK fishing industry, that will enable it to boost size of fleet and catch MICHAEL Gove has rejected angry claims from Britain’s fishermen that they will be worse off as a result of the post-Brexit trade deal struck with the EU. Fishermen’s leaders have accused Boris Johnson of “betraying” the industry over the compromise struck with Brussels over future fishing rights in UK waters. However, the Cabinet Office Minister insisted they would get a greater share of the fish in UK waters and that could increase over time. “It is fair to say that we are in a stronger position than we were in the EU and in the common fisheries policy,” Mr Gove told the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme.
The divorce, however, will still create significant disruption for a range of industries.
Business voices have pleaded for a grace period to comply with the changes
The U.K. and European Union may have signed a trade deal, but British businesses still face a raft of difficult changes.
More than four years in the making, the Brexit agreement avoids the worst-case scenario of new tariffs and quotas after December 31. That’s a welcome relief, and gives companies greater scope to focus on containing the damage from the coronavirus pandemic.
The divorce will still create significant disruption for a range of industries. Mutual recognition of standards, which would have allowed firms to make products in the U.K. and market them in the EU without any extra certification process, isn’t part of the deal. Likewise, workers in Britain’s services industry which makes up 80% of its economy face new costs and bureaucracy as their professional qualifications will no longer be automati
Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has rejected claims that Britain’s fishermen will be worse off as a result of the post-Brexit trade deal struck with the EU.
Fishermen’s leaders have accused Boris Johnson of betraying the industry over the compromise struck with Brussels over future fishing rights in UK waters.
However, Mr Gove insisted they would get a greater share of the fish in UK waters and that could increase over time.
“I think it is fair to say that we are in a stronger position than we were in the EU and in the common fisheries policy,” he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
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