do we know or are they just waiting for the u.k. board to resubmit to formally ask for that extension. the british would have to request this clearly the thing in brussels is over the new deal. which is the same as the worst case scenario across europe for which there would be catastrophic economic consequences with the euro is still in a delicate states and they feel that making it known that this is possible much longer period to formulate a new deal will help to reason may survive and to formulate a new deal perhaps one that includes some kind of customs arrangements with the with the e.u. that is sufficient to get through parliament i mean these are these are quite significant developments tonight as you there in brussels what have you heard about
the united kingdom will leave the european union. if they don t have a negotiated form that takes, what does it look like? what s the bad thing that would happen if they can t go to a hard exit to the european union? it s a very good question and a stark choice faced by 70 million people. the government is gong stockpile things. thousands of officials are working on the possibility that britain will crash out and there will be no deal. there have been rehearsals of what would happen at the ports in the event the no deal as back ups as europe refuses to take british goods and it s impossible for european goods to come in without tariff arrangements and customs arrangements. medicines are being stockpile
open border in the e.u. border but it can cause what was it like before very quickly i mean the border with established in the one thousand twenty s. and then right up into the nine hundred fifty s. there was fairly loose customs arrangements not so much of the so this late in the northern side were relatively loose then when the troubles flared up in the late sixty s and then threat the seventy s the british army came in over at the time the coast times came down gradually with shared membership between the u.k. and ireland of the of the e.c. at the time both the troubles continue to get worse so it became a heavily militarized border i can remember as a child and the nineties you had to cross an army checkpoint any time you want to cross that border which has over two hundred roads by the way there was roads that were unapproved and so on so forth at this stage though over the last twenty years since as you mention the peace agreement the good friday agreement the border has become e
lobby groups have come up now and said large companies are queuing up to shift work or investment out of the u.k. and this is huge implications for british jobs. why didn t you back them up well we have in terms of the last few months there have been discussions in parliament on customs arrangements i had a debate with a colleague from another select committee of that cooper who s the chair of the home affairs select committee back in april and there have obviously been concerns about companies in the company to raise a loss. in parts and absolutely dismayed them you so it s just a difficult subject absolutely dismayed that this is being mishandled on daily basis now in the us and the reaction from the government from the government minister is to shut up back the prime minister very quiet absolutely i think. i was extremely concerned to hear the reaction from two senior government ministers about
a minority of the fifty percent really wants and some of those fifty percent wanted to stay pretty close to the e.u. they don t want economic meltdown in britain because old supply chains have rectal of all manufacturing industry this could be the brics it s that person though to fall you know the irony is that you have a prime minister who was a remailer may carry it out. the irony of history. minister who is now former minister david davies he laid out why he could no longer. serve in discover mint i want you to take a listen to a segment of the interview he gave. so the return of control to parliament is more illusions israel secondly the customs arrangements we will be collecting taxes effectively tariffs for the european union they are bound to insist on the european court having a say in that and that will be a problem in terms of preval control of our laws again and our borders and thirdly