UK’s worst-case no-deal Brexit plan warns of food shortages, public disorder

A pro-Brexit protester demonstrates outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster

The British government’s plans for a no-deal Brexit warn of severe disruption to cross-Channel routes, hitting the supply of medicines and certain types of fresh foods, and say that protests and counter-protests will take place across the country, accompanied by a possible rise in public disorder.

The ‘Operation Yellowhammer’ worst-case assumptions published on Wednesday were prepared on August 2, the government said, and form the basis of its no-deal planning.