David Davis is asked if leaving the EU without a Brexit deal would be a bad thing.

He says that no assessments of the economic impact of failure to reach a deal had been carried out since his appointment as Brexit Secretary.

He says:

Any forecast you make depends on the mitigation you make, and therefore it would be rather otiose to do that forecast before we have concluded what mitigation is possible." You haven't asked me about the upsides - for roughly 60% of our trade we could relax things the other way.

Explaining Mrs May's "no deal is better than a bad deal" mantra, Mr Davis said:

She said that because in the emotional aftermath of the referendum, there were lots of threats of punishment deals and all the rest of it. We had to be clear that we could actually manage this in such a way as to be better than a bad deal, and that is true. I can't quantify it for you yet. I may well be able to do so in a year's time. It's not as frightening as some people think, but it's not as simple as some people think.

He says "it's not possible to calculate" the economic cost of leaving the Customs Union without a Brexit deal.

The Cabinet Secretary also suggests that government wants to extend electronic customs checks after Brexit.

Adding:

When we have finished making the lego blocks, we will build the house. And then we will have the forecast you are talking about.

He says he does his job on the basis of facts and analysis- "not throwaway lines in interviews".