A MEMO leaked from the consulting firm Deloitte suggested that the UK Government “falls considerably short of having a Government plan for Brexit” and claimed that an extra 30,000 civil servants may be needed to cope with the additional workload.

Theresa May’s spokesman, however, vigorously opposed Deloitte’s analysis, saying that he struggled “to understand why such an unsolicited memo that has no credence can make front page news or indeed the broadcast bulletins in the morning”.

Regardless of who’s correct here, there’s an obvious takeaway from this latest development in the drama of Brexit: the Government at Westminster still doesn’t have a plan. They continue to barge recklessly ahead without – as Tory former cabinet minister Ken Clarke said last Tuesday – any “agreed strategy”.

The uncertainty resulting from the Tories’ clear lack of direction has had very real consequences, even here in Scotland. This was demonstrated most recently by the changes Toblerone and other food companies, such as Walker’s Crisps, Unilever, Typhoo and Birds Eye, have had to make in order to keep up with rising prices and unfavourable exchange rates brought on by the falling pound.

Last week, I tabled a motion pointing out these effects after Toblerone announced it had been forced to change the shape of its chocolate bar. The motion was obviously written tongue-in-cheek – something, it appears, the Tories had difficulty understanding given their response. However, it absolutely had an underlying, serious subtext, calling on Theresa May’s Government to put an end to this uncertainty before things more serious than chocolate bars change.

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