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Full leaked Border Force document obtained by Sky News has series of extraordinary detailed insights into assumptions about the operation of the Border for freight, passengers, businesses and security on #D1ND - Day 1 No Deal... /1 
Slide “LENS and People Contingency Assumptions”:
“Loss of data and access to key systems” - ref to No Deal loss of access to EU’s SIS2 - database that’s checked when they swipe your passport and cross reffed against EU wide criminal databases.
Replaced by much inferior system /2
“Loss of data and access to key systems” - ref to No Deal loss of access to EU’s SIS2 - database that’s checked when they swipe your passport and cross reffed against EU wide criminal databases.
Replaced by much inferior system /2
Border Force assumption is that “EU will impose full Schengen border controls” which could mean “UK passengers can no longer use e-gates” and “intentions checking” on way into EU. Which leads to ... /3
.. would lead to “disruption to commercial flight schedules” and “flights arriving out of sequence”... similarly “significant outbound queues at St Pancras” at Eurostar terminal. /4
“The reduction in the value of the pound may contribute to a surge in non-EU passenger traffic [incl before Day 1]”
- thought pretty extraordinary to anticipate this as an impact of No deal, taking for granted a sterling slide, and also impact on migration... /5
- thought pretty extraordinary to anticipate this as an impact of No deal, taking for granted a sterling slide, and also impact on migration... /5
New slide...
New No Deal border requirements at border “may lead to introduced flow and increased confusion amongst travelers”. Both may lead to an increase in OCG [organised crime groups] activity... “additional clandestine threat” /6
New No Deal border requirements at border “may lead to introduced flow and increased confusion amongst travelers”. Both may lead to an increase in OCG [organised crime groups] activity... “additional clandestine threat” /6
....... “risk of reduced operational cooperation from EU partners... may include reduction in French law enforcement, with significant negative impact on our ability to manage threat from GM [general maritime]”
Interesting given context of what happened subsequently in Channel /7
Interesting given context of what happened subsequently in Channel /7
“Readiness taskforce” of 284 deployed to deal with “degradation of border security” in No Deal Brexit
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Border Force “will not be able to differentiate between existing residents and new arrivals” ie cant check settled status at border after No Deal.. so although Govt will claim “free movement no longer applies”..“will not be restrictions on employment for EEA nationals” /9
Border Force “will not be able to differentiate between existing residents and new arrivals” ie cant check settled status at border after No Deal.. so although Govt will claim “free movement no longer applies”..“will not be restrictions on employment for EEA nationals” /9
Home Affairs Select Committee Chair @YvetteCooperMP responds to Sky News obtaining Border Force report:
Documents show weaker systems form border passport criminal checks outside EU SIS2 in No Deal and “raise serious questions about our security at the border in a No Deal Brexit”
Documents show weaker systems form border passport criminal checks outside EU SIS2 in No Deal and “raise serious questions about our security at the border in a No Deal Brexit”
Early studio take on the leaked Govt border No Deal document on border degradation, loss of systems, organised crime & inability to distinguish between settled EU citizens and new arrivals...
... and write up of by myself and @katewilsea ... news.sky.com/story/degradat…
