There is only a “narrow” gap between Britain and the EU on a Brexit trade deal but fishing remains the biggest obstacle, Dominic Raab said yesterday.
The foreign secretary said there had been progress on level playing field rules, which govern how far Britain must follow EU laws in the future and that there was a “landing zone” for a deal in the next week or so.
Mr Raab said the “major bone of contention” was fishing rights and it “can’t be right” that the EU wanted Britain to be able to land only 18 per cent of fish caught in British waters.
In fact what the EU is offering is to hand Britain back 15-18 per cent of the quota European boats take from
