they want to know more about northern ireland i'm joined by quentin peel senior fellow at the think tank chatham house on european affairs thanks for coming quentin say no law and was a major roadblock for 2 reason may and how withdrawal agreement is it all solved now on the bus johnson no i don't think it is i don't think it solved it's been fun the big change is that boris johnson has agreed in effect to have some sort of border in the middle of the irish sea that infuriated the irish the northern irish unionists and really he lost their votes but he no longer needs votes and he's pushed it through the trouble is i think that it's not just the unionists in northern ireland who mistrust the whole deal it's also on the other side of the channel i was talking to somebody from paris yesterday and they were saying we'll win over the top show that the brits won't try and smuggle stuff into the european union through northern ireland we're going to check everything that comes from that island and some say actually it's an opportunity for another island that it gets effectively the best of bot

that the coherence of the entire united kingdom is called into question by this breaks it process quentin peel thank you very much ok thank you. one of the main battles for bracks it was for offshore here fishing quotas have long been a sore point in the u.k. with leavers bowing to take back control of britain's waters so has the fishing industry on both sides been left at sea. for hundreds of years paul joyce family has set out on the north sea to catch fish. there one of the few remaining families of fishermen in hastings southern england my brother is fishing and cousins are fishing. but for my family this looks like the last generation. so it is just not viable for them to fish. but that's not because of depleted north sea fish stocks. in fact stocks have recovered ses joy instead the problem is that british fishermen face a limit on how much fish they're allowed to catch with fish in in british waters which was british territorial waters and have to throw back fish because our counterparts say european fishermen they do not they do not have to from. that's why nearly all the british fishe