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The possibility of Britain crashing out of the EU in eight months’ time without any deal on a future relationship has become the latest focal point of the Brexit debate, write Mark John and Mike Dolan.
Presenting already weak output figures for the first half of this year, the head of the UK's automobile industry grouping warned overnight that a no-deal Brexit was not an option for a sector that relies so heavily on just-in-time inventories and cross-border supply chains.

On a trip to Paris, British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt wielded the risk of "no deal" to try and persuade his French counterparts to back Britain's latest Brexit proposal: the idea being that such an outcome would be as damaging (the verbatim quote is "challenging") to the EU as it would be to the UK.

Finally, the FT reports that Theresa May is warning her party allies that the Labour opposition could use an obscure parliamentary procedure to stop Britain leaving the EU without a deal.

The tacit message to them is: “Make sure you back my Brexit compromise when you return to parliament in a few weeks’ time.” As some, particularly on the hard Brexit side of the debate have pointed out, this is quite a change from May’s old mantra that no deal would be better than a bad deal.

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