Could Sandhurst be Britain's No Deal centre? Military academy would be ...

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Sandhurst is being earmarked as the country’s No Deal nerve centre if Britain leaves the European Union without agreement later this year.

Whitehall contingency planners – who have ramped up their efforts since Boris Johnson became the frontrunner to be the next Prime Minister – calculate the military academy would be the ideal base for the logistics command centre.

The challenges would potentially include keeping fuel and food deliveries moving if the Channel ports were blocked. A Whitehall source said: ‘If we are going to prepare for this eventuality properly – and signal to Brussels that we are doing so – then we will need to effect a proper, military-style operation. And our Army is still among the

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