mo4ch:>6,000 no-deal Brexit staff ‘stood down’ after ‘wasting’ up to £1.5bn in past year | Mo4ch News

The UK government has stopped no-deal Brexit planning, effectively leaving thousands of civil servants with no clear role. Up to £1.5 billion ($1.96bn) has already been spent on preparing an EU exit without a deal in one year.Civil servants across the government – around 4,500 in total – who had been seconded to work on imminent no-deal planning, have been told to return to their official duties after Brexit was delayed to October 31.Also on rt.com‘Don’t want to see you again’: Calais port boss bans UK transport secretary amid no-deal Brexit rowAn e-mail allegedly sent to staff, obtained by Sky News stated: “We have stood down our no-deal operational planning with immediate effect.“At a meeting...we agreed that the objective is to ensure we wind down our no-deal planning in a careful, considered and orderly way.”The Department for Transport, headed by under fire minister, Chris Grayling, which handed over £100m ($131mn) worth of no-deal contracts to ferry firms which don't own any…