Thread by @RosamundUrwin

This is not true. It says right at the top of the Yellowhammer document "base scenario" as @thesundaytimes published when we broke this story. @hilarybennmp

https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1169568382045302785

@thesundaytimes @hilarybennmp Here it is: thetimes.co.uk/article/no-dea…

@thesundaytimes @hilarybennmp And here is Sir Bob Kerslake, the former head of the civil service, on what a "base scenario" is. He'd know. thetimes.co.uk/article/minist…

@thesundaytimes @hilarybennmp Here is Sir Bob Kerslake on what this means:

@thesundaytimes @hilarybennmp I'd add: one of the first things Gove claimed is that Yellowhammer was an old document. We wrote in the third line of our splash that it was from August. I even briefed some other journalists on this and yet this untruth got repeated over and over again. thetimes.co.uk/article/operat…

@thesundaytimes @hilarybennmp Here it is:

@thesundaytimes @hilarybennmp But, frankly, much of this conversation is a distraction from the more important part: what Yellowhammer says. thetimes.co.uk/article/operat…