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terms with any potential impact,
whereas the two missed departure dates

• March 29 and April 12 – were both
  Fridays.
  Remain campaigner Gina
  Miller said: “How many more
  torrents of assessments do you
  need to realise this is putting
  people’s lives in danger?”
  But Business Minister
  Kwasi Kwarteng said: “I
  think there is a lot of scare-

BY BEN GLAZE Deputy Political Editor

On this day

Ex-US President Bill Clinton is

73. He plays the sax. Friends star
    Matthew Perry is 50. His actor
    dad made a guest appearance
    on Friends. Queen bassist John
    Deacon is 68. He has retired
    from the music industry. The
    Closer actress Kyra Sedgwick
    is 54. She is married to actor
    Kevin Bacon. And many happy
    returns to Mirror readers Lynda
    Williams of Milton Keynes,
    Bucks, who is 70 and Gemma
    Griffiths from Wrexham, North
    59 YEARS AGO (1960) Wales, who turns 33 today.
    A Russian military court sentenced
    American pilot Gary Powers to 10
    years in prison after his U-2 spy
    plane was shot down 850 miles east
    of Moscow.

77 YEARS AGO (1942)

The Canadian-led assault with 6,

troops on the Nazi-occupied French

port of Dieppe failed as Allied troops

were pinned down on the beaches

by heavy German fire.

27 YEARS AGO (1992)

We reported Britain had pledged to

send 1,800 more ground troops and

support staff to protect UN food

convoys as two million faced

starvation in war-torn Bosnia.

Birthdays

Today’s giggle

Asked my North Korean

friend how it was living there.

He said he couldn’t complain.

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TODAY: MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2019

ANTI-BREXIT campaigners last

night claimed that a no-deal depar-

ture from Europe would have a

“wartime” impact on the UK.

Britain could face shortages of fuel,

food and medicine, a three-month melt-

down at ports, a hard border with

Ireland and a deeper social care crisis if

we quit the EU without a pact, an official

Government document warns.

Michael Gove, the Cabinet minister

responsible for no-deal Brexit planning,

insisted that the paper represented a

“worst-case scenario”.

But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said

the Tories’ “failure on Brexit, and its

lurch to the hard right, has provoked the

crisis our country faces this autumn”.

He added: “After failing to negotiate a

Brexit deal that would protect jobs and

living standards, Boris Johnson’s Tories

are driving the country towards a

no-deal cliff edge.

“We will do everything necessary to

stop a disastrous no-deal, for which this

Government has no mandate.”

The latest grim scenario was outlined

in a briefing by Operation Yellow-

hammer, the Whitehall codename for

no-deal Brexit planning.

The document sets out potential

impacts of quitting without a With-

drawal Agreement with Brussels.

HUMILIATION

Lib Dem Brexit spokesman Tom Brake

said: “Operation Yellowhammer reveals

the truth of a no-deal Brexit. It would

have wartime implications in peacetime,

all of them self-inflicted.

“People will be horrified that Boris

Johnson and the Conservatives are

willing to pursue a plan that will lead to

shortages of medicines, food and fuel.

“This is a far cry from the promises

Boris Johnson made in the referendum

campaign. Brexit has become a national

humiliation.”

Yellowhammer warns that petrol

import tariffs would “inadvertently” lead

to the closure of two oil refineries, while

protests in the UK could “require signif-

icant amounts of police resources”.

Thousands who regularly travel from

Gibraltar to Spain could face four-hour

border delays for “at least a few months”.

Cross-border smuggling between

Northern Ireland and the Republic – the

UK’s only land frontier with the EU –

could return. And the rescheduled

departure date of October 31 causes

other issues, the briefing document

says. The timing is not “to our

advantage” because it is at the

end of some schools’ half-term

holidays and some families will

be returning from breaks abroad.

And, as it falls on a Thursday,

businesses and financial

firms will not have the

weekend to come to

How many more

assessments do

you need to realise

that this is putting

lives in danger

REMAINDER GINA MILLER ON THE

GOVERNMENT’S PLANS FOR NO DEAL

BULLISH PM

Boris Johnson

has rounded on

MPs fighting

no deal

PREDICTION

Tailbacks on the

M20 in Kent

CHANCELLOR

Angela Merkel