A shortage of food, petrol and medicine would grip the UK within weeks of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, according to secret warnings drawn up in Whitehall. According to the Sunday Times, civil servants have put together three scenarios for a ‘no deal’ Brexit – mild, severe and ‘armageddon’Worryingly, the warnings over supermarkets running out of food within days and petrol shortages hitting within weeks come from the ‘severe’ model – not the most apocalyptic analysis. Ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said the documents showed senior civil servants were “frozen in the headlights” when it comes to Brexit. The anti-EU campaigner said: “They should be planning for what happens if there is no deal, not scaring the pants off each other. “We need people with imagination and courage, not frightened rabbits.”A spokesperson for the Brexit department said: “These claims are completely false.

Source: Huffington Post June 03, 2018 08:45 UTC