A Brussels-imposed deadline for solving a post-Brexit fishing dispute has passed without an agreement being announced. There had been suggestions on Friday that negotiations over fishing licences for small French boats in British waters could lead to a breakthrough. But there has been no announcement expected from the UK government as the midnight deadline came and went. France had threatened to push the European Union for legal action and trade restrictions against Britain if there was not a “sign of goodwill” in the fishing row in time for a Friday deadline set by Brussels. The European Commission had said it expected the dispute to be resolved by 12am. French ministers suggested the EU could tell Britain that some of its products would no longer be allowed to be sold in the bloc as a punishment for failing to lay on more small boat permits in the English Channel. The row …