An unprecedented leak of government documents has laid out the gaps in contingency planning in the event of a no deal. The list of most likely scenarios includes shortages of fuel, food and medicine and a hard border with Ireland thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/o…
Base scenario: When the UK ceases to be a member of the European Union in October 2019, all rights and reciprocal arrangements with the EU end thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/n…
A no-deal Brexit is expected to cause heavy disruption to the UK’s supply of medicines, and the government concedes in the Yellowhammer document that it “will . . . not be practical to stockpile products to cover expected delays of up to six months” thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/d…
A no-deal Brexit will cause food shortages, price rises and may even prompt problems with the water supply thetimes.co.uk/article/expect…
An already “fragile” social care system is expected to be tipped over the edge by a no-deal, with providers starting to go bust by the new year thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/s…
Gibraltar is under-prepared for a no-deal Brexit with the minister overseeing contingency planning saying it was a “gargantuan task” thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/g…
Government plans to set most import tariffs at 0% after a no-deal Brexit could “inadvertently” lead to the closure of two oil refineries, about 2,000 job losses, strikes and disruptions to fuel availability thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/p…
Chaos at the border could last for up to three months after a no-deal before it eases slightly — but the flow of lorries may still be half of its current level by January thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/c…
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Millions of middle earners will be more than £3,500 poorer thanks to plans by Rishi Sunak for a stealth raid on income tax that will last at least six years, an analysis for The Times has shown thetimes.co.uk/article/how-wi…
The prime minister and Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, are thought to have agreed to extend until 2028 a freeze on income tax thresholds that had been due to end two years earlier
The agreement came at a meeting on Monday to discuss how to plug the £35 billion gap in public finances thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-…
Kwasi Kwarteng attended a private champagne reception hours after delivering his mini-budget where hedge fund managers who would gain from a crash in the pound egged him on to commit to his plans thetimes.co.uk/article/kwasi-…
The chancellor also gave guests insights about forthcoming government spending cuts during the event, which took place at the Chelsea home of Andrew Law, a financier and Conservative Party donor, on the evening of Friday, September 23
Law is worth about £750m and has donated £3.6m to the Tories since 2004. He has acknowledged taking short positions on the pound over recent years, meaning he has profited from the currency’s decline in value
Boris Johnson may never return to live in Downing Street, after a removal firm favoured by past prime ministers was seen outside No 10 while he holidayed in Greece thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
Workers from Bishop’s Move were stationed there yesterday, prompting questions over what would happen to the furnishings inside, bought during a controversial luxury refurbishment
Prime ministers can use up to £30k a year of taxpayers’ money to revamp their residence
Three quarters of Tory voters back Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to freeze energy bills as ministers come under pressure to do more to address the “national emergency” of living costs thetimes.co.uk/article/three-…
The Labour leader will set out a £29bn plan today to prevent energy bills rising for six months, as polling indicates big majorities in favour of this idea and windfall taxes that Liz Truss’s team said would raise the risk of recession
Dozens of charities also warned yesterday that children would go hungry if ministers did not double their existing support package to cover energy bills
The US National Archives and Records Administration notified Congress in February that it had recovered about 15 boxes of White House documents from Trump’s Florida home, some of which contained classified material
The US House of Representatives oversight committee said at that time it was expanding an investigation into Trump’s actions and asked the archives to turn over additional information
Since the former Tory MP’s House of Commons porn scandal, many of us can’t look at farm vehicles in the same way. @camillalong meets him and his very understanding wife thetimes.co.uk/article/neil-p…
In April 2021, Parish was fiddling on his phone in the House of Commons. “I genuinely was looking at tractors,” he insists. When typing the tractor’s name into Google, one autocomplete suggestion was porn. “And I went into it,” he says
🗣️ “I have watched porn in the past. But not this type of stuff”.
Parish won’t say what type of tractor it was: “I’m not going there.” But it wasn’t a Dominator as rumoured, he says: the Dominator is a “combine — all right?”