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Emmanuel Macron is stoking tensions with Britain over Jersey fishing access for domestic political reasons, a UK Brexiteer has said – while urging the French President to remember how similar attempts at bullying earlier this year prompted UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to send in the Royal Navy.
David Jones, Tory MP for Clwyd West, was speaking at the end of a week which has seen France lash out at Britain after Jersey refused grant fishing licences to 75 French fishing vessels to access its waters from 30 October.
Paris is also angry after it was revealed the UK had offered just 12 licences to smaller French fishing boats out of 47 applications, with Annick Girardin, France’s Maritime Minister, saying: “On every subject, the British are dragging their feet or failing to live up to their commitments.”
Ms Girardin has suggested retaliation could involve energy supplies, educational exchanges, trade flows and rail links.
However, Mr Jones, who is also the deputy chairman of the European Research Group (ERG) said:
“It’s very regrettable that France, an important European country, should resort to attempting to bully the small island population of Jersey.
“However, the French should remember what happened the last time they tried that: the Royal Navy was sent in.”
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