Pro-Brussels Tories and Labour backbenchers united in proposing an amendment to Treasury legislation that could freeze spending on vital contingency measures needed to ready the country for a sudden break with Brussels. The plot, led by former Labour minister Yvette Cooper, was designed to create financial gridlock in Whitehall in the hope of preventing a no-deal outcome from the exit negotiations. A separate amendment seeking to block Treasury tax-raising powers in event of a no-deal Brexit was tabled by Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable. Express.Macer Hall.
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