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Away from the elections, a Brexit row is continuing in the waters around Jersey, where France has despatched two patrol boats. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency reports the two police vessels were sent after Britain deployed a pair of Royal Navy vessels to the Channel Island.
Earlier, dozens of French fishing boats gathered off the Jersey capital, St Helier, amid fears they were preparing to blockade the harbour. Jersey’s external relations minister Ian Gorst said he would be speaking to the French fishermen in an attempt to defuse the worsening row. He told BBC News:
It’s important that we respond to threats, but the answer to this solution is to continue to talk and diplomacy.
Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds have left a polling station in Westminster – just a short walk round the corner from their flat in Downing Street.
It’s a very big day at the polls today. I hope everybody will go out and vote.
Vote for the @Conservatives today. pic.twitter.com/3ble5mbNNB
