UK faces food, fuel and drugs shortages in no-deal Brexit: Times, citing official documents

A truck is driven past dozens of others parked after travelling by ferry between Britain and France at the Port of Dover, Britain. [Reuters]

Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland, official government documents leaked to the Sunday Times show.

The Times said the forecasts compiled by the Cabinet Office set out the most likely aftershocks of a no-deal Brexit rather than the worst-case scenarios. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said it did not comment on leaked documents.