'This is the most realistic assessment of what the public face with no deal.'
The UK faces shortages of food, fuel and medicine if it crashes out of the EU without a deal, leaked government documents reveal.prepares to issue an ultimatum to EU heads next week, the bleak reality of crashing out on October 31 has been laid bare.
They say the vulnerable will be the hardest hit if we leave the EU without a deal on Halloween because of parliament’s inability to agree on a course of action. Medical supplies will be subject to ‘severe extended delays’ as three-quarters of medicine enters the UK via the Channel crossings.Almost 300 fishing ships are expected to illegally head into UK waters on Brexit day
Operation Yellowhammer is marked ‘official-sensitive’ and those with access to it have a high degree of security clearance. After a three-year deadlock, the EU is still refusing to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement debate that was agreed with Theresa May in November 2018 but defeated three times in the House of Commons.
However, Germany now believe no deal is ‘highly likely’ and the talks at a summit in Biarritz, France, are unlikely to yield anything new.
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