Doug Gurr, the American retail giant\u2019s UK manager, became the first representative of business to issue such a stark warning to government. It is said to have stunned those present, with some expressing skepticism at his comments, reports the Times.<\/p>\n
The Amazon UK chief told Raab and other representatives of Britain’s largest businesses that this was a worst-case scenario and formed part of his company’s contingency planning.<\/p>\n
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A spokesman for Amazon declined to confirm or deny the comments but said: \u201cLike any business, we consider a wide range of scenarios in planning discussions so that we\u2019re prepared to continue serving customers and small businesses who count on Amazon, even if those scenarios are very unlikely.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis is not specific to any one issue \u2014 it\u2019s the way we plan for any number of issues around the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Gurr\u2019s comments came at a day-long meeting of UK business executives and Raab at Chevening, the government\u2019s country retreat in Kent.<\/p>\n Some of those present included, Dame Inga Beale, chief executive of Lloyd\u2019s of London; Sir Ian Cheshire, chairman of Barclay; \u00a0Andy Higginson, chairman of the grocery chain WM Morrison; and Sinead Lynch, UK country chairwoman at Shell. It was the third such meeting between top business chiefs and Brexit ministers.<\/p>\n Raab who appeared on BBC One\u2019s \u2018The Andrew Marr Show\u2019 on Sunday, was asked about reports that the UK government was planning for Britain to stockpile medicines and food in the event of a no deal. The Brexit secretary would only disclose that these reports were \u201cselective snippets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He maintained that a deal with the EU could be brokered by October despite the sluggish nature of negotiations with the bloc. Ardent pro-EU Tory, Dominic Grieve, has echoed Gurr\u2019s concerns over a \u2018no-deal\u2019 Brexit, claiming such a scenario would be \u201cabsolutely catastrophic.\u201d<\/em> He told Sky News: \u201cWe will be in a state of emergency \u2013 basic services we take for granted might not be available.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Brits reject May\u2019s Brexit plan, want BoJo to hold talks & lead Tories instead \u2013 poll<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for a \u201cserious stepping-up\u201d<\/em> of talks to avoid Britain leaving the EU without a deal.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Theresa May will chair a cabinet meeting in Gateshead on Monday to discuss her Brexit deal. Last week EU chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, questioned May\u2019s EU withdrawal proposals. He also dismissed British plans on the City of London\u2019s access to the European financial market post-Brexit, claiming they would undermine the power of Brussels.<\/p>\n Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The head of Amazon UK has warned Brexit secretary Dominic Raab that if Britain leaves the EU with no deal it could lead to \u201ccivil unrest\u201d within two weeks, in a meeting on Friday with other business leaders. Doug Gurr, the American retail giant\u2019s UK manager, became the first representative of business to issue such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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