A ‘doomsday’ no-deal Brexit scenario could see Britain run out of food within days — and it only gets worse from there

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• A “doomsday” style Brexit could see the country grind to a halt within a fortnight.
• This is because the Port of Dover would collapse on “day one,” according to scenarios drawn up for David Davis, as reported by The Sunday Times.
• From there, things just get worse as food would run out “within days” and hospitals would run out of medicine “within weeks.”
• A spokesman for the Department for Exiting the European Union has dismissed this scenario from becoming reality.

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LONDON — A no-deal Brexit could see Britain run out of food within days, according to a “doomsday scenario.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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