The UK's Brexit minister has threatened to retaliate in the escalating fishing row with France with "practical responses". Lord Frost said he made clear to EU Brexit negotiator Maros Sefcovic if France carried through with threats to disrupt fisheries and hauliers next week the UK would react "accordingly", in both physical and legal ways. The pair were holding talks in London about the Northern Ireland Protocol but the row over licences for French boats to fish in UK waters dominated as it took a turn for the worse yesterday when France seized a British scallop trawler and today charged its captain. If the UK ... (full story)