UK Member of Parliament Michael Gove’s father has contradicted claims made by his son that the family’s seafood processing firm in Aberdeen was destroyed by the European Union’s fisheries policies.
Ernest Gove told the Guardian he sold the business voluntarily because the fishing industry in Aberdeen was being hit by a range of different factors. These included competition for space in the port from North Sea oil vessels, the Icelandic cod wars, dockworkers’ strikes and new 200-mile limits to control over-fishing.
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