This fish spat with France is just another product of Johnson’s broken Brexit | Simon Jenkins

The PM’s push to quit the European single market has proved disastrous for Britain’s standing at the key moment of Cop26

As Boris Johnson stumbles from cliche to cliche in Glasgow, a boatload of French fishers are making a fool of him. Posing as a world leader, he pleads that the Earth is “at one minute to midnight”, and should raise its game in the last chance saloon. Yet he cannot stop France’s Emmanuel Macron taunting him over a few boat licences, any more than he can handle the consequences o...