Royal Navy's ability to monitor coastal waters to be strengthened post-Brexit to protect UK fishing grounds from EU trawler 'armada'

The Royal Navy’s ability to monitor the nation’s coastal waters after the UK leaves the European Union will be strengthened in order to protect Britain’s returning fishing rights, a Brexit minister has signalled.

Tory MPs urged the Government to ensure the Royal Navy has the resources it needs to end the days of the “armada” of European trawlers “plundering” Britain's fishing grounds.  

Steve Baker, a senior minister at the Department for Exiting the European Union, has confirmed the UK “will strengthen our surveillance capability” to enforce Britain’s rights after withdrawal.

He also said the Government will make sure the Royal Navy has the “appropriate capacity” that is required to “patrol...