Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
NHS plans for Brexit doomsday scenario
Warning UK ‘will run out of drugs if no deal’ Top Tories speak out over feuding ministers Secret file left on Eurostar in security gaffe
BREXIT documents including emails from Theresa May were left on a Eurostar service in a security blunder.
A file belonging to the Prime Minister’s top EU adviser, Olly Robbins, containing “Cabinet-level briefings” and correspondence with the PM was found on a Brussels to London train. An intelligence official said: “It was sensitive material and could have been damaging if it had ended up in the wrong hands.”
A retired teacher from Doncaster, South Yorks, found the file in May and alerted officials at the Brexit Department. Staff then rushed to collect it.
The source said: “There was an internal investigation because it was deemed to be an internal security breach.” HEALTH chiefs are preparing for a doomsday no-deal Brexit where the NHS runs out of drugs, its boss revealed yesterday.
NHS chief executive Simon Stevens said plans were being drawn-up so vital medicines could still come into the UK.
Some 37 million patient packs of medicines are imported from the EU every month. Experts fear supplies could run out without a deal.
“There is significant planning going on around all the scenarios including medicine supply,” Mr
Stevens said.
Tom Brake, Lib
Dem Brexit spokesman, said: “It is undeniable that leaving without a deal would devastate our health service.”
The warnings came as Graham
Brady, who chairs the Tory 1922 backbench committee, warned his feuding party to end its Brexit civil war or risk opening No10 to Jeremy Corbyn.
He demanded a truce in the run-up to Friday’s crunch showdown at Chequers.
“The danger of disunity at the top of the party is not just that it makes the Prime Minister’s job more difficult and therefore puts at risk the good Brexit deal that is in reach,” Mr Brady wrote in The Observer.
“It also gives an impression of division. One thing is certain: they do not vote for divided parties.”
And Business Secretary Greg Clark added: “It’s important to respect the discipline of being part of a team, to take a professional approach to it.”