19 August 2019 - Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, leaked official documents have revealed.

Projecting a vision of jammed ports, public protests and widespread disruption, the forecasts compiled by the Cabinet Office set out the most likely aftershocks of a no-deal Brexit rather than the worst-case scenarios.

But Michael Gove, the minister in charge of coordinating no-deal preparations, challenged that portrayal, saying the documents did set out a worst-case scenario and planning had been accelerated in the past three weeks.

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