5 STORIES COMING UP TODAY

FISHING PROTEST

Boris Johnson ‘understands the frustrations’ of businesses exporting to Europe after seafood hauliers protested against the Brexit fishing deal by stacking lorries in London. He confirmed any business facing difficulty exporting to the EU ‘through no fault of their own’ would be compensated.

SMART ‘DANGER’

Smart motorways ‘present an ongoing risk of future deaths’, a coroner has concluded, following an inquest into the deaths of two men on the M1 in south Yorkshire in June 2019.

SEVEN COMPLAINTS

A Department of Education hotline set up after pictures emerged of ‘unacceptable’ food parcels has only received seven complaints, a minister said.

‘EXTEND FURLOUGH’

The Government should announce an extension to the furlough scheme and business rates holiday before the Budget in March, says the Confederation of British Industry. It said businesses cannot be expected to wait nearly two months to know if support will be extended.

£20 CREDIT ROW

Boris Johnson has refused to guarantee that he will not end the £20 weekly rise in Universal Credit as senior backbench Conservatives threatened to rebel and back Labour in a vote.