Brexit: UK assumes French plans 'will ease no-deal disruption'
The government is assuming that French preparations for customs and regulatory checks have markedly decreased the anticipated trade disruption from a no-deal Brexit, the BBC has learned.
"Reasonable worst case scenarios" still anticipate long disruption to about half the freight crossing the Channel.
But the assumption, the basis for a lot of the government's no-deal planning, has been upgraded twice recently,
The scenarios were told to industry, but kept secret from the public.
Last year the government's original "reasonable worst case scenario" for no deal was that for three to six months, 75-87% of "flow" across the "short straits" would be interrupted and forced to join queues on motorways approaching the Channel Tunnel and ports.
That assessment assumed that French authorities would check every lorry coming into its country manually. As there had been no talks between authorities. UK officials had to use satellite photographs to estimate the potential for holding and processing facilities around French ports.
Brexit: UK assumes French plans 'will ease no-deal disruption' - BBC News
That's nice, innit?
The government is assuming that French preparations for customs and regulatory checks have markedly decreased the anticipated trade disruption from a no-deal Brexit, the BBC has learned.
"Reasonable worst case scenarios" still anticipate long disruption to about half the freight crossing the Channel.
But the assumption, the basis for a lot of the government's no-deal planning, has been upgraded twice recently,
The scenarios were told to industry, but kept secret from the public.
Last year the government's original "reasonable worst case scenario" for no deal was that for three to six months, 75-87% of "flow" across the "short straits" would be interrupted and forced to join queues on motorways approaching the Channel Tunnel and ports.
That assessment assumed that French authorities would check every lorry coming into its country manually. As there had been no talks between authorities. UK officials had to use satellite photographs to estimate the potential for holding and processing facilities around French ports.
Brexit: UK assumes French plans 'will ease no-deal disruption' - BBC News
That's nice, innit?
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