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Off the back of our no deal ferries story yesterday, the Speaker has granted an urgent question on the subject at 1130. Chris Grayling once again dragged to the dispatch box.
Chris Grayling is once again talking about the ferry contracts as “an insurance policy”. But if that is what it was, why cancel the policy given no deal is coming again in October? Either the govt doesn’t believe no deal will ever happen or they’re incompetently written.
What is fascinating is that these contracts came into operation on March 29th automatically, not when no deal came into place. I suspect the govt wanted to write those dates in, not have something more flexible, because they didn’t want it to leak that that date might slip.
That’s a costly bit of politics.
Chris Grayling completely fails to answer question from @AndyMcDonaldMP why the Department didn’t negotiate contracts with a flexible start time.
Chris Grayling is missing the point when talking of “insurance”. If the PM had been honest from the beginning that she wouldn’t tolerate no deal (which we now know was her position), then this “insurance policy” (£2bn plus of no deal preparations) wouldn’t have been necessary.
