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Fishing Still In Focus As Brexit Deal Press Conference Awaited

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Earlier it'd been reported that we could see a presser announcing the deal at 8am GMT, but equally, multiple outlets (BBC, Guardian) have said that's going to be delayed, in the true Brexit negotiation spirit.

  • Times' Bruno Waterfield reporting in last 20 minutes that there's still a holdup on fish: "Christmas Eve morning and the brawl over the numbers on fishing quotas is still going on...Line by line, herring by herring, pollock by pollack takes time. Especially when there are several negotiarions going on. The big one EU-UK and then lots of internal European talks on sharing the cuts...The French are resisting cuts to the value of fish, often in UK territory waters worth less than E3.5m a year under the phase in. Predictable"

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