Tory arch-Brexiteer Boris Johnson has warned that Theresa May’s “worst deal in history” with the European Union will empower Brussels to “bully and blackmail” Britain over fisheries, where EU control has already resulted in tens of thousands of job losses.

EU leaders have wasted little time in gloating over “the worst deal in history” negotiated by Theresa May, with French president Emmanuel Macron gloating he can blackmail Britain into surrendering its fishing waters or force it into the humiliating “backstop”.

France is leading a push to demand the European Union issues a hardline declaration on the bloc’s interpretation of Theresa May’s proposed withdrawal agreement, covering issues including fishing

The European Union is demanding it retain control of Britain’s ravaged fisheries as the price of approving Theresa May’s plan to keep the country in the EU Customs Union, according to reports.

Brexit-supporting Cabinet minister Michael Gove has vowed to take back control of Brexit Britain’s territorial waters in a new Fisheries Bill, and to devolve significant powers from the European Union to Scotland’s local parliament. 

The UK public strongly backs increasing fishing quotas for British vessels operating in their own waters, polling has found.

British fishermen are calling for Royal Navy protection after their vessels were attacked by French boats as they were out catching scallops in the English Channel.

The Irish premier has been slammed for threatening to ban British planes from his nation’s airspace after Brexit if the UK takes back control of its territorial fishing waters.

The environment secretary has revealed plans to take back control of UK fisheries, decide how much stock to allocate to European boats, and give a “fairer share” to British vessels after Brexit.

Brexit campaign leader and former UKIP chief Nigel Farage is joining a symbolic boat-burning in Whitstable as fishermen protest their “betrayal” by Government in the Brexit negotiations.

Leading Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has denied he will “fling” dead fish into the water from a fishing boat on the Thames in protest of the government “selling out” Britain’s fisheries in the latest Brexit agreement.

The Tory government’s apparent betrayal of the fishing industry with the announcement that their share of Britain’s fish will not change during the so-called ‘transition’ period after Brexit could undo its negotiations entirely.

Cabinet Remainer-in-Chief Philip Hammond has sparked anxiety in Britain’s coastal communities by casually announcing that the country’s fisheries could be sold out as part of a Brexit deal.

British fishermen are worried Theresa May will sell out their industry to the EU, as Brussels negotiator Michel Barnier courts their European rivals in Denmark.

European Union trawlers have been stepping up illegal ‘pulse fishing’ in British waters under a special EU derogation, inflicting “total devastation” on the North Sea.

Admiral Lord West, one of Britain’s most senior naval veterans, warns Britain faces becoming a “laughing stock” after Brexit, with a depleted Royal Navy unable to protect its reclaimed fishing grounds from marauding European vessels. Within the EU, the country’s