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  Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of a 60-strong group of Eurosceptic Conservative MPs, and others are due to board a boat and pass by Parliament throwing fish into the Thames in protest at the alleged “sellout”. A Brexit transition deal agreed with Brussels allows the EU to maintain control of Britain’s territorial waters until the end of 2020, which protestors described as “a potential death sentence” for the British fishing fleet.
  
  Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservatives leader, joined the growing rebellion as she warned Mrs May that the 13 Tory MPs north of the border will oppose any Brexit deal that “fails to deliver full control over fish stocks and vessel access”. Douglas Ross, the Moray MP, said: “It would be easier to get someone to drink a pint of cold sick than to sell this as a success.” The controversy over fishing rights was one of a series of climb-downs announced by Brexit Secretary David Davis ahead of a meeting of EU leaders this week to ratify the transition deal.
  
  The protest will draw comparisons to the Brexit referendum row between Bob Geldof and Nigel Farage. Mrs May, who wrote to European Council President Donald Tusk supporting the progress made by negotiators, also abandoned her personal pledge that free movement would end on Brexit day in March next year. EU migrants arriving during the transition period will now have the same rights as those arriving before Brexit.

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