UK position in French fishing row unchanged, says Boris Johnson

Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) greets French President Emmanuel Macron at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow (Alastair Grant/PA)

The row over post-Brexit fishing arrangements with France is “vanishingly unimportant” when compared with tackling climate change, Boris Johnson has said.

The British Prime Minister insisted that the UK’s position had not changed in the dispute, which surrounds the number of fishing licences granted to small French vessels since the UK left the EU.