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ARTICLE · 10 JANUARY 2019

A No-Deal Brexit May Be Illegal

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The threat of a no-deal Brexit is creeping ever closer with no obvious plan B visible from Theresa May and her Brexit team, it comes as no surprise that the risk that there may be shortages of vital medicines and other supplies is now looming.

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The threat of a no-deal Brexit is creeping ever closer with no obvious plan B visible from Theresa May and her Brexit team, it comes as no surprise that the risk that there may be shortages of vital medicines and other supplies is now looming. The recent dress rehearsal involving the nose to tail lorry chaos at Dover, staged presumably as an "awful warning" to those who would de-rail Mrs. May's Brexit deal, has pointedly demonstrated, if we didn't already know, that supplies may prove to be extremely difficult to obtain post-Brexit, at least in the first few weeks.

This prospect has thrown up a legal question, Jonathan Cooper, a leading Human Rights lawyer, is quoted in today's press suggesting that if the Government goes ahead with a no-deal Brexit and it causes in a shortage in vital medicines the consequence of which could result in loss of life. The Government would then be in breach of the Human Rights Act and the obligations of the international human rights

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