GB News star Eamonn Holmes has expressed frustration about a key British industry being ignored in the wake of Keir Starmer’s ‘surrender’ to the EU.
The Prime Minister unveiled his Brexit ‘reset’ alongside EU leaders at a Central London summit yesterday and has been accused of making major concessions to the bloc.
His decision to allow European trawlers 12 years of access to UK waters has sparked backlash and Eamonn said on the People’s Channel the concerns of Britain’s fishermen are going unheard.
“They will try and make out farmers are going to do very well, I don’t know, but they say they will”, he said.
Eamonn Holmes thinks not enough attention has been given to Britain's fishermen
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“But I think, who cares about the fishermen? Nobody seems to care. They are on their own.”
Former Tory MP Anna Firth told GB News she is furious about the agreement that she sees as a “shabby sellout of our historic fishing industry”.
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Keir StarmerPAShe said: “When we came out with Brexit, one of the things fishermen weren’t happy about was being kept in the orbit of Brussels for five years.
“That was due to come to an end next year and we were going to be able to get complete control of our fishing waters.
“What this has done is given this away. Fishermen have had a bad time for decades. The fishing industry has halved in the last 40 years.
“This is probably going to be the end of our small fishing fleet.”
Eamonn Holmes hit out at the deal on GB News
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Government sources have hailed the major deal as one that is “mutually beneficial” and would “deliver for British working people”.
Last-minute stumbling blocks are said to have arisen as disagreements over fishing rights and youth mobility presented challenges.
The Scottish Government has expressed concern, stating it has not been briefed on fisheries negotiations despite agriculture and fisheries being devolved to Scotland.
Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson branded Keir Starmer the “gimp of Brussels” in a brutal verdict while speaking to GB News about what he called a “hopelessly one sided” deal with the EU.
Both Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage have already described the deal as a "surrender", despite the details not yet being known, and indicated they would tear it up if they came to power.
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey urged the Prime Minister to be "bold and ambitious", comparing Badenoch and Farage to "dinosaurs fighting old battles".
He argued that "a new UK-EU customs union would be the single biggest thing ministers could do to boost public finances", warning that "anything less would be a choice to limit growth".
