Hold the fish. But has Boris Johnson the guts to do it? If one thing screams from the current, final trade talks between Britain and the European Union, it is that fishing cannot become a deal-breaker. It is an industry alive with romance, but it occupies just 0.02% of the British domestic output and employs just 12,000 people, fewer than benighted Debenhams. The reality is that British negotiators have proved so incompetent in the talks so far – playing hard and soft throughout as if it were a poker game – that the EU now has all the cards in its hand. Messages emerging from the Brexit talks indicate that two of the ... (full story)