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Leaked documents seen by @BBCNewsnight reveal Chris Grayling's Department for Transport did not consult with French ports before drawing up its no-deal Brexit ferry relief plans for Portsmouth - & relied on "satellite imagery" to inform its analysis...
bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
...watch the story at 33.30 minutes in here...: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
...Story came from the digging of Newsnight's Sarah Teasdale. And Portsmouth beautifully shot by the indefatigable @ianpritchcamera
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Ben Chu
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Remember those 40 European Union free trade deals that the Trade Secretary Liam Fox said would be rolled over by this week ensuring continuity of trade for UK exporters even if we experienced a no-deal Brexit?...
....as we know only eight of those 40 have actually been concluded (though a ninth was announced last week)...
....which is obviously bad news.

But @BBCNewsnight has further bad news about the eight deals that the Trade Department has actually got over the time...
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Thread on Philip Hammond and the end of the no deal risk

1/ The Chancellor sought to reassure business leaders immediately after the colossal Parliamentary defeat of the Withdrawal Agreement on Tuesday night that the UK would not crash out of the EU with no deal on 29 March....
2/ So how did he do this when, as the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and other hardline Brexiteers tell us, the law says we must leave on that date even if there is no deal?...
3/ Hammond pointed to the amendment being put forward by the Tory backbencher Nick Boles along with others and described it thus...
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A no-deal Brexit could happen 'by accident', says Jeremy Hunt. Andy Grice in @Independent says otherwise, arguing Parliament would step in to prevent it...:
...a great deal in the Brexit negotiations hinges on who is right. If the EU side know that Hunt is making empty threats they will obviously ignore it and adopt a hard line....
....of course it's possible that Hunt's rhetoric is more for the consumption of europhobic Tory members than EU negotiators
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