The point being that under international law France has no right to fish in the UK’s waters after Brexit but with a deal something could have been worked out as the Germans pointed out to Macron, odd that you think Macron sticking up for his fishermen is ok but not for the UK to do the same, in both countries the fishing is pretty small fry in terms of GDP, but seems to invoke a lot of passion. The Times may generally be a Tory supporting paper but it has plenty of criticism for this government and I don’t think Simon Coveny is a paid up member of the Tory party just a politician in a country that has probably the most to lose from a no deal Brexit.