France threatened to cut off Jersey's electricity supplies on Tuesday as the row over post-Brexit fishing rights between Paris and London deepened. "We are ready to use these retaliation measures," Annick Girardin, the maritime minister, told lawmakers in the French parliament. "I am sorry it has come to this.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage tore into the European Parliament as he unleashed his final tirade after 20 years as an MEP. He said: "A 47-year political experiment which the British have frankly never been very happy with. Not to flags anthems presidents and now you even want your own army.