Chris

What’s not on is the Independent using this crisis to try to campaign on the future relationship, painting anything the EU does as somehow virtuous and heroic and every decision by HMG not to participate as self destructive and evil.

We have our own procurement plans, and anyone capable of reading past the spin the independent has put on this story will note that nowhere is there any suggestion that the UK’s approach will result in fewer items arriving more slowly. They have gone to some lengths to prompt careless readers from drawing that conclusion by basically welding two different stories together - but nonetheless they still don’t actually report that the UK government has actually disadvantaged itself. Because there’s no evidence that it has.