No-deal Brexit plans to earn 2.1 billion pounds

The government has announced additional funding of £ 2.1 billion to prepare for a Brexit without agreement.

The plans provide for a greater number of border force agents and a modernization of the transport infrastructure in the ports.

There will also be more money to ease congestion in Kent and fight the queues created by delays at the border.

Other measures include funding for the storage of drugs to ensure ongoing supplies, as well as a national program of badistance to businesses.

"With 92 days before the UK leaves the European Union, it is vital to step up our planning to make sure we are ready," said Chancellor Sajid Javid.

"We want to get a good deal that removes the undemocratic system, but if we can not get a good deal, we will have to leave without one.

"This additional £ 2.1 billion will guarantee that we are ready to go on October 31 – agreement or no agreement".

But Chancellor of the Shadow, John McDonnell, called these plans a "frightening waste of taxpayers 'money, all in the interest of Boris Johnson' s desire to achieve a" no. -deal "totally avoidable".

He added: "This government could have excluded no agreement and spent these billions for our schools, our hospitals and our people.

"The Labor Party is a party for the whole of the UK, so we will do everything in our power to block a Brexit without agreement and with collapse."

"Preparedness without a transaction" is the energetic promise of the new Treasury which, under the previous leadership, had been accused by the current Prime Minister and his Brexiteer allies of having delayed funding such measures.

However, hundreds of new border force officers will be needed for new audits and improved port infrastructure.

Part of this increase, however, is a repeat prescription for a supply of essential drugs: again spending tens of millions of dollars to reserve a trans-channel ferry capacity and for specialized storage and warehousing that was ultimately not necessary after the last Brexit deadline.

All this is designed to ease the expected traffic jams around Dover and Calais.

But it is not entirely in the hands of the government. It depends on whether the French authorities choose to enforce full customs and health controls on cargo coming from the United Kingdom.

The flow across the Channel also depends on the preparation of many small traders, more than half of whom have not adhered to the most basic customs registration, which will become mandatory for European trade without any agreement.

An advertising campaign will target this vital group. He will have to convince them that it is very likely that no agreement will be reached, even if the Prime Minister himself suggests that the odds are extremely low.

The new money consists of £ 1.1 billion which will be immediately handed over to the Departments and the Decentralized Administrations, while an additional $ 1 billion will be released if necessary.

This is in addition to the £ 4.2 billion already allocated to preparations for Brexit by former Chancellor Philip Hammond.

Among the measures announced by Mr Javid, it is planned to spend £ 344m on new border and customs operations.

This includes the recruitment of 500 additional border force officers, in addition to the 500 already announced, while additional funds will also be available for customs training and UK pbadport processing.

An additional £ 434 million will be devoted to the continuity of drugs and essential medical products, including goods transport, storage and storage.

On the rest, 108 million pounds will go to promoting and supporting companies "to make sure they are ready for Brexit", including a national business readiness program and "to help exporters to prepare for and take advantage of new opportunities ".

A public information campaign and an increase in consular support for Britons living abroad will also be proposed, at a cost of 138 million pounds sterling.