"For anyone who has worked in purchasing for some time, this is as significant and widespread a challenge as we’ve seen."

A deal to allow UK trawlers to fish in Norwegian waters will not happen until at least next year, an MP has claimed.

The sea of opportunity that Brexit was supposed to deliver has certainly dried up for Yorkshire’s fishermen. News that the UK and Norway have failed to reach a fishing deal for this year means boats like the Hull-based Kirkella remain tied up, possibly for good.

Exclusion from Norwegian seas could be ‘nail in coffin’ for distant-water fleet.

Boris Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings has told a Labour MP who complained about death threats that he should vote for a Brexit deal.