tories: Watson said of the settlement on Friday This is a scandalous, needless, reckless waste of public money caused by the Tories' gross failure in Brexit negotiations and their botched effort to prepare for the disastrous folly of a no deal which shouldn't even be on the table, according to The Guardian. The government reached the 33m agreement with Eurotunnel just hours before a four-day trial was due to start, threatening to heap more embarrassing revelations on Grayling. The deputy Labour leader, Tom Watson, said heads must roll after the latest chapter in the fiasco, in which the startup company Seaborne Freight was awarded a 14m contract to open a new UK-EU ferry route for emergency medical supplies in the event of a no-deal Brexit, even though it had no ships and no port contract. On Friday, Labour claimed that decisions made by Grayling in various government departments had cost the taxpayer 2.7bn, including 2bn on the cancellation of Virgin's East Coast rail franchise and 800,000 on consultants' fees to assess the viability of Seaborne. In any other sphere of life he would have been sacked long ago. The shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, said Grayling's conduct as a minister is one of serial failure and routine incompetence.
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