Now France Aims To Ban UK Seafood

France is set to ban British seafood imports in retaliation for not getting enough fishing licences from the UK.

- Peter Allen in Paris

It has also not ruled out cutting off electricity to the Channel Islands as part of the escalating dispute.

Gabriel Attal, spokesman for the Emmanuel Macron administration, said yesterday that Britain’s conduct over fishing rights in British waters following Brexit had led to the French “losing patience”.

He said that from Tuesday there will be “systematic customs and sanitary inspections on imported products arriving in Channel ports”, including “a ban on disembarking seafood products as well as checks on lorries”.