No Deal Brexit ‘will spark 12 weeks of chaos’ at Britain’s ports and borders and could take MONTHS to thrash out a deal, Whitehall planners warn
*The project fear mob are at it again
A NO Deal Brexit will spark 12-week border and port chaos, Whitehall planners will warn next week.
It could take that long to thrash out a deal with EU states to keep goods flowing.
The scenario will be outlined in a Cabinet No Deal summit on Thursday.
Ministers will hear that an EU talks collapse would see delays at ports, such as Dover, and airport mayhem.
The warning is revealed today by Sun columnist James Forsyth. It comes as Whitehall prepares the next 20 No Deal technical notices for publication.
This week UK Brexit officials did not deny that plans include lining the M20 with backed-up lorries — and hiring portaloos for drivers.
PM Theresa May received a boost as claims the EU’s Michel Barnier told Remainer MPs the Chequers deal was dead were rubbished. In a transcript of his Brussels talks with them he replies: “In the White Paper are lots of positive things. Lots of useful things. I did not just reject the White Paper outright. That is just not true.”
Labour’s Stephen Kinnock earlier told an MPs’ committee Mr Barnier said to them: “The proposals are dead.”
Mr Kinnock added: “I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that Chequers is dead in the water. Michel Barnier made it clear it’s completely unacceptable.”
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Speaking at a meeting of finance ministers in Vienna, the Chancellor said a deal was “very much in the interests of the EU27 as well as the UK that Brexit runs smoothly next March.
In a coded warning, he added: “”Remember this event is happening just eight, nine weeks before the EU parliament elections. It’s not in anybody’s interests to have a chaotic Brexit, a Brexit without a deal, so we’ll keep working very hard together and I’m sure we’ll get there.”
He added: “This event is eight, nine weeks before the elections. It’s not in anybody’s interests to have a Brexit without a deal.”
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