THERESA MAY’S proposed Brexit deal risks a “very damaging” impact on Scotland’s fisheries, SNP ministers have warned.

Scottish Fisheries Secretary Fergus Ewing has written to Westminster condemning its failure to ensure tariff-free access to the European market for Scottish seafood exports.

He said the “explicit linkage of trade and access to UK waters” was “in direct contradiction to what was promised in the British government’s white paper on fisheries.”