No-deal Brexit: Spain is providing assistance to firms at risk because of Brexit (Image: GETTY IMAGES)
Firms will have access to a ’Brexit check’ service to help with contingency planning as well as direct aid from the Spanish government. Speaking ahead of yesterday’s historic Commons vote which saw Theresa May’s deal roundly defeated by MPs, Spain’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, said Madrid is now preparing for the “worst scenario”. She said the government was genuinely concerned Britain will leave the EU without a deal, Spanish newspaper 20 minutos reports.
She said: "The uncertainty leads us to think of the worst scenario.
"The government's responsibility is to do things and minimise the impact in our economy.
“We receive every year 18 million tourists from the UK, so the risk for Spain of not doing anything is high.”
The announcement came as new figures revealed a record number of people visited Spain in 2018, despite a slower than usual summer.
Reyes Maroto said Spain is preparing for the worst case scenario of a no-deal Brexit (Image: GETTY IMAGES)
Preliminary official data showed the number of visitors to Spain rose 0.9 percent in 2018 from a year
