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Boris’s new Brexit strategy? Agree to disagree

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The UK is set to offer the EU a three-year transition period on fishing as a means of setting aside the issue as a block to a potential deal. What to do about fish has been a major impediment in the negotiations throughout the post-referendum period. And it appears that this government wants to repeat what has happened whenever a major Brexit-related impasse has been hit in the past — just find a way to kick the whole thing into the long grass.

The overarching terms of the deal seem to imply that between 2021 and 2024, quotas and access for EU fishermen to UK waters would be reduced year on year — yet there can’t be any agreement at the moment on what this access will ultimately be reduced to since if that were the case, the UK and the EU wouldn’t be at this impasse in the first place.

Nick Tyrone
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Nick Tyrone is a former director of CentreForum, described as 'the closest thing the Liberal Democrats have had to a think tank'. He is author of several books including 'Politics is Murder'

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