Ministers set to publish ‘no deal’ Brexit plans
The Government is set to release plans for a ‘no deal’ Brexit in a series of technical notices this Thursday.
Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab will continue Brexit negotiations in Brussels this week The papers will offer advice to businesses, public bodies and citizens on how to prepare for the possibility of Britain leaving the bloc next March without an agreement.
The Government is expected to publish around 70 technical notices between now and late September.
Dominic Raab said the advice would "mitigate the risks and make sure the UK is ready to make a success of Brexit".
The Brexit Secretary - who will continue negotiations in Brussels this week – added that the papers would "clearly set out the steps that people, businesses and public services need to take in the unlikely event that we don't reach an agreement".
Downing Street said the advice was "sensible, proportionate, and part of a common sense approach to ensure stability, whatever the outcome of talks".
The move comes after Jeremy Hunt warned that the UK would regret crashing out of the EU without a deal “for generations”.
Speaking during a tour of the continent, the Foreign Secretary said a ‘no deal’ Brexit would be a "huge geo-strategic mistake".
Meanwhile, an Opinium poll for the Observer has found that 40% of people now believe the UK will crash out of the EU without a deal – up from 31% last month.
Only 22% think Britain will eventually secure an agreement, while 16% believe Britain will not leave the EU in March.
graham669
12:57 on 19th August 2018
The government have never really had any other intention. Criminal May has spent the last two years obfuscating, fudging the issues, and making impossible proposals to the EU, which she knows they cannot legally accept. She continues to procrastinate, and intends to, incorrectly, blame the EU for their intransigence! She always has been committed to a rock hard no deal brexit, that would be an unmitigated disaster for the UK, so that she can please her billionaire paymasters, not the people of the UK. She should rescind the Article 50 notice before it is too late! Then resign as PM and call a GE. Or, she should be impeached, or prosecuted for treason.