Brexit: Dover could lose £1bn worth of trade a week under no deal, Tory fringe told – live news

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments, including reaction to leaked UK plans for the Irish border, the PM’s interviews and Priti Patel’s speech to Tory party conferencePM dismisses leaked border planSome border checks on goods needed post-Brexit, says PMJohnson’s interviews – summary 2.58pm BST This is that the Press Association has filed about the incident at the conference earlier that led to security being called and part of the venue being cordoned off.A senior Tory MP is understood to have clashed with security at the Conservative party conference, prompting a lockdown of part of the venue. Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was involved in what a doorman described as a “small misunderstanding” at the International Lounge in the conference centre. 2.53pm BST Customs infrastructure even five miles from the Irish border risked breaking Brexit laws passed by the house of commons this year, parliament has been told.In oral questions in the House of Commons Labour MPs Pat McFadden and Angela Eagle raised section 10 (2) (b) of the Withdrawal Act 2019.Would he regard such physical infrastructure a few miles back from the border as incompatible with the legislation that this house has passed? Continue reading…
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