Brexit: government publishes Operation Yellowhammer documents – live news
Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen
- Scottish judges rule Boris Johnson's prorogation unlawful
- Full text of official summary of Scottish court's decision
- Johnson should resign if he has misled Queen, says Dominic Grieve
- Boris Johnson's 'People's PMQs' - Snap verdict
- Early evening summary
9.09pm BST
Here is more from the Sunday Times' senior reporter Rosamund Urwin confirming what was contained paragraph 15 of the document originally leaked to her in August, which has seemingly been redacted in tonight's version.
"15. Facing EU tariffs makes petrol exports to the EU uncompetitive. Industry had plans to mitigate the impact on refinery margins and profitability but UK Government policy to set petrol import tariffs at 0% inadvertently undermines these plans." [More to come]
"This leads to significant financial losses and announcement of two refinery closures (and transition to import terminals) and direct job losses (about 2000). (2/3)
Resulting strike action at refineries would lead to disruptions to fuel availability for 1-2 weeks in the regions directly supplied by the refineries." (3/3)
8.54pm BST
Shadow Brexit Secretary Kier Starmer has reacted to the documents - urging that parliament be recalled to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
These documents confirm the severe risks of a no-deal Brexit, which Labour has worked so hard to block.
It is completely irresponsible for the government to have tried to ignore these stark warnings and prevent the public from seeing the evidence.
Continue reading...