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Ex-navy chief Lord West says PM is RIGHT to prepare Brexit gunboats Tom Pyman For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Boris Johnson was today blasted as an 'English nationalist' by a former Conservative party chairman as Tories rowed over the Prime Minister's Brexit plan. Gunboats are being prepared for any 'punch-up' with 'stormy' French fishermen as last-minute negotiations with the EU rumble on. The trade talks continue to be deadlocked over the thorny issues of fishing rights and the so-called level playing field 'ratchet' that would tie the UK to future...

Britain will send in four Royal Navy vessels with cannon and machine guns to patrol the English Channel and Irish Sea to stop illegal fishing if a trade deal is not agreed with the EU.