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...Hilary Benn, chair of the Commons Brexit committee, said: “A sanitised version of the Operation Yellowhammer report will not do....
...I currently live in the state of Alabama, but that’s a new place for me....
...A new departure date is set to be confirmed with EU leaders in the coming days, meaning that plans revolving around exit day will have to change....
...Just hours after Mr Johnson’s government was forced to publish details of Project Yellowhammer — its emergency planning for the no-deal Brexit that 73 per cent of Leave voters seem not to fear — John Lewis...
...She added that ministers claiming to have mitigated Yellowhammer risks in the past six weeks had “a very optimistic view”....
...A black market was likely to develop in Northern Ireland, with criminal and dissident groups taking advantage of new price differentials....
...Northern Ireland The government does not expect a hard border to return immediately after a no-deal Brexit, but its regime of “no new checks with limited exceptions” will prove unsustainable....
...legal claims stemming from the opioid crisis, the FT reports that the Pentagon is compiling a list of companies with ties to the Chinese military and the UK government releases the controversial “Operation Yellowhammer...
...Officials also told the FT that the government intended to publish new assessments of the measures required to leave the EU on October 31....
...“Yellowhammer didn’t give us the full picture . . . one could say it was seriously misleading.”...
...Michael Gove, Cabinet Office secretary, said the government was “committed to sharing as much of Operation Yellowhammer as it could” and would soon publish a revised version of the document....
...Dr Nicholl said the recent leaked publication of the Yellowhammer report had vindicated the concerns about possible drug shortages that he had publicly expressed....
...Downing Street declined to comment on the leaked document about Operation Yellowhammer, its planning for a no-deal Brexit....
...“That makes it harder for the new government to persuade them that it really could happen this time.”...
...Mr Picardo’s administration insists the Yellowhammer document is out of date, adding it has stockpiled so many medicines it has been told by the UK to stop....
...During the summer, thousands of civil servants were moved out of their regular Whitehall jobs into no-deal contingency planning units under the government’s Operation Yellowhammer....
...Mr Gove refused to be drawn on the purdah question but, during the course of a debate that revealed little new detail about Operation Yellowhammer, he insisted UK citizens would still be able to choose from...
...Whitehall officials confirmed on Friday that Operation Yellowhammer — a national strategy aimed at preventing a run on food, fuel and the banking system in the event of a no-deal Brexit — had been paused...
...MPs from other opposition parties argued that any such manoeuvre would not have given the prime minister a “fair” opportunity to secure a new exit deal....
...Michael Gove, cabinet office minister, said on Sunday he was “triggering Operation Yellowhammer” — the government’s no-deal contingency plans — in case the EU refused to grant Mr Johnson’s request for an...
...The prime minister’s plan for an election on December 12 would see his Brexit deal put on ice while the country chose a new parliament, giving voters a final chance to stop Britain’s departure from the EU...
...It added that the immediate known economic effects would be a further drop in sterling, squeezing UK incomes, and some disruption in cross border flows of goods and services from new trade barriers....
...Mr Johnson defended the prorogation as being necessary to enable the government to launch a new legislative programme in a Queen’s Speech on October 14....
...Further reading What is Operation Yellowhammer?...
...He added that weekend bleak reports over the UK’s no-deal contingency planning, dubbed ‘Operation Yellowhammer’, were also weighing on the currency....
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