Today we had the minister for Brexit contingency planning at the select committee. Two hours later we had established that he had no idea what was going to be in a government statement on Brexit later today 1/6
He disagrees with the prime minister about what the options are if her deal gets voted down; 2/6
He thinks the £16 million extra funding announced in December for the Police Service of Northern Ireland was to prepare for the annual marching season (the Chief Constable says it’s for Brexit preparations) 3/6
He doesn’t know which “unforeseeable emergency” allowed the government to bypass proper contracting procedures before they gave a shipping contact to a company with no ships. 4/6
He doesn’t know when any of the trade deals will be concluded to replace the ones we lose if we leave the EU; 5/6
Apart from that he was quite good at reading out the answers somebody had written for him. 6/6
