News / Whitehall unveils new express emergency freight plan for 'no-deal' Brexit

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The UK government has announced new plans to create an “express freight contingency arrangement” to keep supplies of critical medicines coming into the country if it leaves the EU without a deal on 31 October.

In an apparent change of strategy, following the disastrous attempt to secure extra ferry freight capacity before 29 March – estimated to have cost hundreds of millions in charter costs, legal fees and compensation – cabinet minister David Liddington told parliament yesterday the new capacity would ...