UK Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt told reports in Helsinki that the risk of no-deal Brexit has been “increasing recently”. But he emphasized that it’s not what anyone wants and I hope very much that we’ll find a way to avoid that”. He urged that “everyone needs to prepare for the possibility of a chaotic no-deal Brexit”. He also called for “a change in approach by the European Commission”.
Hunt is on a three-day European tour. He will meet Foreign Ministers of Finland, Latvia, Denmark and the Netherlands. In a quote released by the Foreign Office, Hunt said “we want to safeguard our operational capacity as we leave the EU, and so we have put forward precise, credible proposals that ensure our ability to act is maintained.” And, “we are now at the point where the EU also faces strategic choices: with the option to move the negotiations forward and achieve a deal that works in our mutual interests. My simple message is that we need to take that opportunity.”
