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Old 18-08-2019, 14:42   #1193
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Re: PM Boris forms a government

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Leaked report in the Times (behind paywall, but can be seen if you use incognito browsing).

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/n...ment-797qxkrcm
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A No 10 source told the BBC that dossier had been leaked by a former minister in an attempt to influence discussions with EU leaders.
They added that the document "is from when ministers were blocking what needed to be done to get ready to leave and the funds were not available".
Responding to the leak, Mr Gove tweeted: "We don't normally comment on leaks - but a few facts - Yellowhammer is a worst case scenario - v significant steps have been taken in the last three weeks to accelerate Brexit planning."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49388402

As I said earlier ... there was a time when all sides in this negotiation were in agreement that ideally the UK should not be leaving the EU in the first place. I’d have been more surprised if a document like this didn’t exist, and I couldn’t be less surprised that it is being leaked now, by someone who was in it up to their eyeballs and is still trying desperately, now from the outside of government, to continue to exert pressure to force the UK to remain as close to the EU as possible.
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