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Britain's food industry is so worried about the impact of no-deal on supplies that they have asked the government to waive chunks of existing competition law, the BBC reports. That, they argue, would at least allow them to co-ordinate and direct supplies with each other in such a scenario, write Mark John and Mike Dolan.

They and others with delicately balanced supply chains are unlikely to derive any assurance from Prime Minister Boris Johnson's insistence to his Japanese counterpart that a smooth transition out of the EU is needed "whatever the circumstances".

Such a blanket assurance may well be founded on the belief of some of his ministers in the viability of "managed no-deal" arrangements mitigating against a hard Brexit’s impact. However that is a plan that, even if workable, would require the buy-in of the EU - which for now has ruled it out as another unacceptable cake-and-eat-it aspiration by Brexiters.

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