A leaked secret presentation shows how the British might react to a no-deal Brexit

• Nearly 9 out of every 10 cargo boats would stop ferrying trade across the English Channel if British Prime Minister Theresa May fails to secure a Brexit deal, according to leaked Border Force documents obtained by Sky News.
• But that decline will be eclipsed at the UK's borders and airports where travel for the Brits will quickly coagulate around checkpoints and passport checks.
• The document, a blunt internal presentation on what Britain would really face in the event of a no-deal Brexit, warns of 'significant' outbound line ups at the Eurostar and a 'degradation' of security.
• Most tellingly, the Home Office predicts that it simply will not be able to tell the difference anymore between EU residents and new EU arrivals.

An internal government presentation reveals startling new details about how Britain could react to a no-deal exit from the European Union.

Sky News has obtained the Border Force presentation titled "Freight Traffic Contingency Assumptions." The documents suggest that Britain, already humbled by its own indecisiveness and philosophic polarity, would begin life post-European Union with an 87% collapse in freight trade across the English Channel.

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