Michael Gove in Parliament yesterday;
"The automotive sector, who I met this week, confirmed that they were ready,"
Representatives of the automotive sector, present at the meeting;
"I was at the meeting. There's no way that is the message he could have gone away with,"
"No! We said we are planning as best we can, but cannot prepare for all eventualities and tariffs alone undermine our viability. We want a deal. No deal is not an option. Catastrophic."
And a briefing note reports "leaving without a deal is the worst possible outcome".
Reminds me of when I was working on a national IT networking project, and at one meeting 3 aides to a Labour minister attended to verify details to be included in a speech the minister was giving that afternoon. The aides listed the 4 key points, all of which, the project team asserted to them, were wrong.
The speech went ahead without correction.