UK Could Trigger EU Dispute Over Fishing Row With France: Boris Johnson

France is incensed that Britain and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey have not issued some French boats licences to fish in their waters post-Brexit.

Britain said Saturday it has not ruled out invoking a Brexit dispute tool with the European Union for the first time, after France threatened trade reprisals in a row over fishing rights.

"No of course not, I don't rule that out," Boris Johnson told Sky News in Rome on the sidelines of a G20 summit, where he is due to hold a brief meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.

"But what I think everybody wants to see is cooperation between the European allies and Emmanuel Macron," he added.

"And I share a common perspective (with them) which is that climate change is a disaster for humanity and that we have the tools to tackle it," he said, ahead of the UN COP26 summit that starts in Glasgow on Sunday.