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The Government has revealed its No Deal contingency plans, including more than 3,000 lorries a week to bring in essential drugs and 1,100 extra customs and immigration officers. Preparations for Britain crashing out without a free trade agreement have so far seen Royal Navy vessels deployed to ‘threats of illegal fishing’ in UK waters, Number … Read more
What are the sticking points in Brexit talks? FISHING The UK has insisted that it will take back control of its coastal waters from the end of the transition period. But the EU was demanding its fleets maintain previous levels of access – with Emmanuel Macron under particular pressure from the French fishing industry. … Read more
Chinese parent company ByteDance has urged TikTok to draw up contingency plans should it need to shut down its U.S. operations, even as it works toward divesting them, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. ByteDance has been ordered by President Donald Trump to divest TikTok in the United States, amid security concerns over … Read more
Economic fallout from a pandemic was NOT modelled as part of contingency planning, admit civil service chiefs Senior civil servants gave evidence to MPs on pandemic planning yesterday Revealed economic consequences of pandemic not part of contingency plans The chair of the Commons watchdog said the admission was ‘gobsmacking’ Here’s how to help people impacted … Read more
Whitehall officials drawing up the government’s disaster contingency plans ‘never considered senior ministers being taken out one by one by disease’ Whitehall disaster plan ‘did not consider scenario of losing ministers one by one’ Plan had focused on what happens if many ministers ‘taken out’ in military strike Lack of planning for a disease sweeping … Read more