The UK fishing offer raising hopes of a Christmas Brexit deal

Compromise on EU catch reduction may have unlocked last-minute talks

Britain's chief Brexit negotiator David Frost in Brussels
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A UK counter-offer on fishing rights has raised hopes that the negotiating deadlock may be broken, paving the way for a possible Brexit deal before Christmas.

The proposal was tabled by UK chief negotiator David Frost following a “difficult period of negotiations” and is understood to have “unlock[ed] the troubled talks” after both sides were “seemingly entrenched”, The Guardian reports.

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Joe Evans is the world news editor at TheWeek.co.uk. He joined the team in 2019 and held roles including deputy news editor and acting news editor before moving into his current position in early 2021. He is a regular panellist on The Week Unwrapped podcast, discussing politics and foreign affairs. 

Before joining The Week, he worked as a freelance journalist covering the UK and Ireland for German newspapers and magazines. A series of features on Brexit and the Irish border got him nominated for the Hostwriter Prize in 2019. Prior to settling down in London, he lived and worked in Cambodia, where he ran communications for a non-governmental organisation and worked as a journalist covering Southeast Asia. He has a master’s degree in journalism from City, University of London, and before that studied English Literature at the University of Manchester.