But while the EU has indeed set out some contingency plans for no deal – and it is true that those will enable us to avoid the most catastrophic scenarios – these are very different from the kind of side deals that Davis seems to envisage. Brexiteers' claims of a managed no-deal Brexit are just a "cuddly-sounding rebrand", wrote Anand Menon and Jonathan Portes in an opinion piece for The Guardian. Proponents of a no-deal Brexit have changed their position after recognising the EU intends to treat the UK as a third country immediately after Brexit, the pair wrote. "The government has been forced into this position, but it is not clear that there will be any way out other than leaving without agreeing on some kind of transitional arrangement," they said.
Brexiteers' claims of a managed no-deal Brexit are just a "cuddly-sounding rebrand", wrote Anand Menon and Jonathan Portes in an opinion piece for The Guardian. Proponents of a no-deal Brexit have changed their position after recognising the EU intends to treat the UK as a third country immediately after Brexit, the pair wrote. "The government has been forced into this position, but it is not clear that there will be any way out other than leaving without agreeing on some kind of transitional arrangement," they said.