If No Deal is necessary

Writing in the Sunday papers yesterday, Sajid Javid and Michael Gove both set out plans to accelerate preparations to leave with no deal should the EU be unwilling to negotiate a new deal.

The government's preferred option was and is to leave with a deal capable of getting through parliament, which means scrapping the backstop in anything like its present form.

Those MPs who insist that they are strongly opposed to a "No Deal" exit but have three times voted against leaving with a deal will, if a "No Deal" exit is the only way to implement the referendum decision of the British people, share a large part of the responsibility for causing the very result they say they want to avoid.

  • But there is a need to plan for a "No Deal" outcome, not because anyone prefers it, but in case the EU’s leaders will not agree to anything which could get through parliament. 
  • All the necessary funding to prepare for no deal is being put in place, including 500 new Border Force officers and support for Brits living abroad and to get our businesses ready. 
  • The Government machine is being retooled for the task so that civil servants know delivering Brexit on time is the most pressing task before all of us. 
  • A new, unified Whitehall structure has been created to coordinate action across different departments and speed up decision-making.

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