No-deal exit creates 'immediate risk' in UK

Britain's head of counterterrorism said a no-deal Brexit would create an "immediate risk" to the security of the country because of British police losing access to European data on serious criminals.

In an interview in The Guardian newspaper, Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said he "can't put a scale" on the damage leaving the European Union at the end of October without alternative measures in place would do to the country's security. No amount of preparation would lessen the impact, he added.

"It would create an immediate risk that people could come to this country who were serious offenders, either wanted or still serial and serious offenders committing crimes in this country, and we would not know about it," Basu said.