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3,100 views · Published 25 March 2018 · 6:13 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2018 · News & Politics

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The UK will continue to plan for a ’No-Deal Brexit’ despite reaching a transition phase agreement.

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In what will come as music to the ears of many a Brexiteer, the Brexit secretary, David Davis has said that despite progress being made in the talks the UK was still planning for a no-deal Brexit as the ultimate fall-back.

Talking on the BBC Andrew Marr programme, Mr Davis, did say that it was “incredibly probable very, very highly probable” that a final deal with the EU would be reached and likened planning for a no-deal to having an insurance policy. Without that planning, he said, we could get to November with no other choices but to take what was on the table making negotiations much tougher.

"You don't expect your house to burn down, it's less than a one in 100,000 chance, but you have house insurance anyway." He said.

He also said that other EU countries like France, Holland, Belgium and Germany were also making no-deal preparations.

And on the Irish border question he said that there would be a solution via trade or technology to prevent a hard border.

Continuing the no-deal Brexit theme, James Forsyth writing in the Spectator, says that:

"One of those intimately involved in no deal planning complains that ‘there is an institutional reluctance to continue working on contingency in Whitehall’."

And goes on to say that if we are tied to what's put on the table by the EU due to our own lack of planning then our position will be greatly undermined, with the EU able to take a very hard line in the negotiations.

"The paradox of no deal planning, though, - he writes - is that by doing it, you make no deal less likely. That is why it must be stepped up in the coming months."

Now, to be effective, this no-deal planning must be kept under wraps and any publication of its contents, in part or whole, only being done if it enhances the UK's negotiating position.

The Remainers know this of course, so just like the 'impact assessments' expect there to be a push to get the whole no-deal Brexit plan before MPs and Lords so it can be selectively leaked by Remain minded officials and politicians to not only give EU negotiators the advantage, but also to allow Treasury officials to start working on a dodgy dossier to try and derail it!

Another topic discussed is Jacob Rees-Mogg and his upcoming Brexit ‘preversary’ speech likening non-delivery of Brexit to a national humiliation the size of the Suez crisis.

Sources:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-davis-brexit-no-deal-theresa-may-transition-agreement-eu-a8272881.html

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/why-no-deal-preparations-must-continue/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/24/failed-clean-brexit-would-biggest-national-humiliation-since/

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