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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Cindy You, and I'm

joined by Fraser Nelson and Katie Bals. So over the weekend, Operation Yellowhammer, a government

report detailing what would happen in a no-deal Brexit, and the government's response to it, was leaked.

Katie, what did it say? So it was the splash of the Sunday Times Times and it detailed the various possible outcomes of a no-deal Brexit.

Now, the government had been keen to stress that this is a worst-case scenario, but some of the highlights, if you want to call them that, we have a transport disruption, 50% to 85% of lorries travelling across the channel may not be ready for

French customs. You have food shortages is another thing that came up. There's possibility of fuel

shortages and also you have the Irish border and there was talk there with the fact that it

wouldn't be sustainable in the long term or perhaps even in the past immediate short term to have this policy which Boris Johnson has spoken of of not

having a hard border so not doing checks and making clear it wasn't a sustainable way forward now

lots of the things in the project yellow hammer document have been reported. You've had them in various government

leaks also just in a forecast of what might happen. I think what is damaging is clearly this is

at a point where Boris Johnson is trying to send this message to the EU that the UK is ready for

no deal and the government having been quick to hit back that this is an older document now how old

this document is I think it's hard to dismiss it in its entirety ultimately it might be a month old

we know that since Boris Johnson has come into government they have put extra funds into preparing

for no deal into trying to avoid the situations it was interesting that you had Gibraltar coming out saying

that the things in the Yellow Hammer report in the Sunday Times relating to Gibraltar are no longer

the case because they have made progress there. So some of the stuff is moving. I think it is

difficult though to dismiss it as a whole ultimately low the difference between boris

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