Cabinet Office drawn up horror show warning on what the country could face this winter. And it’s been leaked to @thesun. As Brexit talks slip into acrimony, and covid second wave fears rise.. here is what is on the warning dashboard: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12474511/emergency-plans-perfect-storm-no-deal-brexit-coronavirus-second-wave/

The Cabinet Office’s EU Transition Task Force gave ministers and officials a horror show Powerpoint presentation marked “Official Sensitive” amid concerns not enough is being done to prepare for the worst-case scenario.

Lots of the Yellowhammer stuff rolled over from last year - navy protecting fishermen, border chaos sparking shortages of medicines, chemicals and even food. Stockpile warnings. But the perfect storm comes if Covid and flu cases surge at same time.

Rising virus infections and hospital admissions would require a possible return to two-metre social distancing rules and further lockdown restrictions “well into 2021”.

But, they fear, public compliance with anti-Covid measures could “steadily wane”.

And ministers have been warned the NHS could be overwhelmed by a “one in 40-year flu scenario alongside even a continuation of the current levels of C19 and significantly overwhelmed in any level of second peak”.

The document says five per cent of councils in England “are already at high risk of financial failure ­following Covid-19”. And inflation could “significantly impact social care providers due to increasing staff and supply costs”.

*Ministers have also been told to brace for a further 24 months of virus infections in care homes*

Responding to leak - @michaelgove: “we are working flat out to make sure UK is ready for the changes and huge opportunities .. Part of this work includes routine contingency planning for various scenarios that we do not think will happen but we must be ready for, come what may.”

All the details here: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12474511/emergency-plans-perfect-storm-no-deal-brexit-coronavirus-second-wave/