{"id":8191,"date":"2019-08-18T13:18:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T08:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2019-08-18T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T08:18:21","slug":"uk-faces-food-fuel-and-drugs-shortages-in-no-deal-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/8191","title":{"rendered":"UK faces food, fuel and drugs shortages in no-deal Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland, official government documents leaked to the\u00a0<em>Sunday Times<\/em>\u00a0show.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0said the forecasts compiled by the Cabinet Office set out the most likely aftershocks of a no-deal Brexit rather than the worst-case scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>They said up to 85 percent of lorries using the main channel crossings &#8220;may not be ready&#8221; for French customs, meaning disruption at ports would potentially last up to three months before the flow of traffic improves.<\/p>\n<p>The government also believes a hard border between the British province of Northern Ireland and the Republic will be likely as current plans to avoid widespread checks will prove unsustainable, the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom is heading towards a constitutional crisis at home and a showdown with the EU as Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly vowed to leave the bloc on October 31 without a deal unless it agrees to renegotiate the Brexit divorce.<\/p>\n<p>After more than three years of Brexit dominating EU affairs, the bloc has repeatedly refused to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement which includes an Irish border insurance policy that Johnson&#8217;s predecessor, Theresa May, agreed in November.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister is coming under pressure from politicians across the political spectrum to prevent a disorderly departure, with opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn vowing this week to bring down Johnson&#8217;s government in early September to delay Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>It is, however, unclear if lawmakers have the unity or power to use the British parliament to prevent a no-deal departure &#8211; likely to be the United Kingdom&#8217;s most significant move since World War Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland, official government documents leaked to the\u00a0Sunday Times\u00a0show. The\u00a0Times\u00a0said the forecasts compiled by the Cabinet Office set out the most likely aftershocks of a no-deal Brexit rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366,31,1416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8193,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions\/8193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}