We don’t care what it costs, say Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, as the Treasury blows another £2bn preparing the country yet again for no deal. There was no demand for hard Brexit. His hard Brexit is based on a legal fantasy, that under World Trade Organization rules you can have an agreement without a deal. Hunt, meanwhile, feels obliged to repeat May’s “no deal is better than a bad deal” mantra. Play Video 0:47 Boris Johnson outlines his plans for ‘day one’ if elected PM – videoThis is not what Johnson and Hunt seem ready to contemplate.

Source: The Guardian June 28, 2019 05:00 UTC