Up early and out for a run. An interesting day, the main item on the menu being fish! Many of us were disappointed to learn that we will not get back control of our seas until January 2021, this after being assured we'd do so at the end of March 2019. Clearly, EU negotiators were not happy with that idea, so a further period of 21 months in the much-detested Commons Fisheries Policy is necessary. UGH! We are told the EU cannot pull a fast one during this period and ensure they have access to our waters in perpetuity through some backdoor mechanism. I sincerely hope not. Anyway, our anger clearly made its way to the Prime Minister as I and many other coastal MPs were invited to meet her at No 9 Downing Street. As always, she was courteous and listening to our many points. I sought and received her assurance that we would indeed get our waters back in January 2021, so that was something. As I attended this meeting, Defra Secretary Michael Gove was summoned to the House via an Urgent Question on the same topic. He was kept at the Despatch Box for some time as MPs from all sides questioned him. I had organised a private meeting with Mr Gove in the afternoon to discuss various farming issues with one or two colleagues, but sadly that was postponed during to his busy diary. A working lunch at my desk and then back to No 9 for another meeting, this time with the Chief Whip. This was in confidence, but Brexit issues were on the table for discussion. After a good meeting, I headed to Committee Room 12 for a meeting of the ERG, chaired by Jacob Rees-Mogg. Again this meeting was in confidence, but it was a most useful one.