The UK government is not on track to be ready for a no-deal Brexit in October, with its departments at risk of wasting millions more pounds on rushed moves to prepare for a Halloween exit, an influential House of Commons committee has warned. Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday urged the government to ramp up its no-deal preparation ahead of the potential plan for the UK to leave the European Union without a deal on October 31. Two candidates to replace Theresa May as Conservative leader and prime minister — Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt — have said they would take the UK out of ... (full story)