The agreement reached between the UK and the EU is seen as the most significant since Brexit, for it includes not only new fishing rights for European vessels in British waters, which will last 12 years, but also trade agreements for food and agricultural products and a pact on defence and security. The new rules were finalised overnight, just a few hours before Ursula von der Leyen and other EU representatives arrived in the UK for a summit organised by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, where negotiations will continue. Also part of the agreement is a youth exchange programme that could replace the old Erasmus, suspended with Brexit, which is yet to be defined. The UK has agreed to give European fishermen access to its waters but, in return, demanded more favourable conditions for its agricultural and food products, which had been penalised with Britain’s exit from the EU. Among the first to protest against the new agreements was Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage, who founded the Brexit movement a few years ago. The deal is “the end of Britain’s fishing industry”, Mr Farage said. Even the leader of Britain’s main opposition party, Conservative Kemi Badenoch, said the UK was “becoming a rule-taker from Brussels once again”. Conservative newspapers, from the Daily Mail to the Daily Express to the Daily Telegraph, called the deal a “betrayal of Brexit”.