{"id":52732,"date":"2025-04-26T18:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52732\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T18:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:10:13","slug":"nigel-farage-vows-to-double-brexit-britains-fishing-zone-after-issuing-keir-starmer-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52732\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage vows to double Brexit Britain’s fishing zone after issuing Keir Starmer warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has vowed to double Brexit Britain’s fishing zone after issuing a major warning about Labour’s negotiations with the European Union. <\/p>\n

As rumours circulate about Sir Keir Starmer buckling to Brussels to secure a cross-Channel defence deal, the Clacton MP promised to extend the waters from which foreign boats are barred without permission from six miles to 12 miles from shore.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Telegraph, Farage said: \u201cFor the inshore fishing communities, which have for centuries been the mainstay of Britain\u2019s coastal communities, the situation is pretty catastrophic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe disappointment and the anger in the industry with the Tories since Brexit almost knows no bounds, and if Labour make it worse, I think it may well be the end of an industry.<\/p>\n

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Nigel Farage in Ramsgate<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe would reclaim the 12-mile exclusive fishing zone and any boat that fished between six and 12 would do so with our ability to inspect and our ability to set the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused of selling out fishermen by failing to secure a better deal with the EU.<\/p>\n

However, under the terms of the current deal, European vessels will next year lose their automatic right to fish in British seas and will have to negotiate access annually.<\/p>\n

Despite boasting last year about increasing Britain’s haul by \u00a3306million, Labour now looks set to make concessions on fishing access as part of Starmer’s EU reset. <\/p>\n

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Fishing industry bodies have also failed to convince the Government to leave the Common Fisheries Policy, a decision Farage said leaves foreign fishermen able to “plunder” Britain’s coastal seas.<\/p>\n

Farage, who warned Starmer is planning a “full-on betrayal”, added: \u201cWho has got the whip hand in these negotiations? If we settle for this new deal, who\u2019s actually in charge?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe madness, of course, is that, managed correctly, the fish in the sea are the greatest renewable source that we possess as an island.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reform UK could receive a welcome seaside surge in the upcoming Local Elections, with a YouGov opinion poll suggesting ex-Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns may win as the populist party’s Greater Lincolnshire mayoral candidate.<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is set to meet with Macron and other leaders (<\/p>\n

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GB News last year reported on how fishing communities had lost their faith in the Tories and were prepared for Labour to sell them out to the Europeans.<\/p>\n

Cornish skipper Bracken Pearce told the People’s Channel: \u201cIf Starmer secures the six to the 12 (mile limit), that would be symbolic. That\u2019s what everybody really wanted but they sound like they\u2019re going to do the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite opinion polls suggesting Reform UK would secure dozens of coastal constituencies, the Tories lost 62 of its 81 “sea wall” seats in the 2024 General Election.<\/p>\n

After being ravaged by EU vessels for half a century, fishermen dealt the Tories a bloody nose after Johnson only managed to secure the phased repatriation of just 25 per cent of Brussels\u2019 old quotas by value.<\/p>\n

The ex-Prime Minister had hoped for a 60 per cent cut, with the costs of new paperwork bringing further burdensome red tape to coastal communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has vowed to double Brexit Britain’s fishing zone after issuing a major warning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,285,386,16,3106,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-52732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-reform-uk","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-uk-politics","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114405613648256176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}