UK To Send Navy Ships To Jersey In Post-Brexit French Fishing Row
Updated 06/05/2021 00:39 BST UK Sends Armed Navy Ships To Jersey In Post-Brexit French Fishing Row France had warned it could cut off electricity to the island. Two armed Navy ships will be sent from the UK to Jersey amid an ongoing row between the island and France over post-Brexit fishing rights and concerns about the prospect of a blockade. Two offshore patrol vessels will “monitor the situation” after French maritime minister Annick Girardin warned on Tuesday that the country was ready to take “retaliatory measures”, after accusing the Channel Island of draggin...