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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 10 confirmed last night. Now officials have announced a raft of other moves, including the recruitment of extra border staff to help ensure the country can keep moving once the transitional arrangement with Brussels ends.  The extra employees will be su...

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Boris Johnson says the UK will 'go the extra mile' in EU Brexit talks as he steps back from the brink of No Deal but warns they could still fail because the two sides 'are still very far apart on some key things' - as supermarkets prepare for panic-buying PM held talks with European Commission president Ursula Von de Leyen this morning by telephone He had suggested that today was a hard deadline for both sides to make agreement or stop them But in a joint statement this morning they said: 'It is responsible at this point to go the extra mile'

‘Keep calm and carry on’: France shrugs off threat of Royal Navy gunships guarding Channel fishing waters, as no-deal Brexit looms Rob Merrick France has shrugged off threats to send in Royal Navy gunships to guard Channel fishing waters, ahead of a feared announcement that talks to avert a no-deal Brexit have failed. Boris Johnson is poised to tell the country on Sunday that the negotiations are over – plunging trade with the EU into turmoil in 19 days’ time – although a decision to keep talking is still possible. Ahead of the crunch moment, the risk of clashes in t...

comments Chancellor Angela Merkel is being blamed for the European Union's hard line during Brexit deal negotiations One source said that she was 'determined to make Britain crawl across broken glass' rather than compromise  Johnson's Whitehall intervention is aimed at protecting vital supplies of food and medicines after January 1  Will head 'super-committee' to run alongside existing No Deal preparation group chaired by Michael Gove Boris Johnson has seized personal control of Britain's No Deal preparations as the deadline for historic talks with the EU expires today. The move comes as Go...