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The Army is "ready to help" in a No Deal Brexit , the head of the Armed Forces declared today.

General Sir Nick Carter revealed military chiefs are "thinking hard" about how they can assist if ports and roads are blocked.

Troops have not yet been asked to help stockpile food and medicine, the Chief of the Defence Staff said.

But he confirmed the Armed Forces are making "sensible contingency plans" - adding: "We’re involved in thinking hard about what it might involve."

He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "What we always do of course is to make sensible contingency plans for all sorts of eventualities.

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"Whether it's a terrorist attack or whether it's a tanker drivers' dispute, industrial action or whatever else it might be.

"At this stage, I think people are confident there'll be a deal.

"If there's not one then we stand ready to help in any way we can."

He added: "We're involved in thinking hard about what it might involve. But we've not been asked specifically to do anything at this particular stage."

Sir Nick's comments come as the prospects of No Deal ramp up, with all sides rejecting Theresa May's current plans for leaving the EU.

Time is now quickly running out to secure agreement before exit day on 29 March 2019.

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The Mirror has previously revealed councils are bracing themselves for three months of chaos with runs on food, fuel and the banks.

And pet owners are being warned to start consulting a vet now if they want to take the animal abroad after 29 March.

Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood confirmed: "It is the job of the Chief of Defence Staff, indeed the MoD and the Defence Secretary, to consider all scenarios whether how vague or rare they might be or whether they might be something that's expected, we have to plan for every single scenario.

"So yes, there are contingency plans being made, there are discussions being held behind the scenes as to what support our armed forces will do."

Speaking on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War, Sir Nick also warned institutions like Nato are no longer enough to protect the modern world.

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He said “unregulated” forms of attack are on the rise - from fake news and cyber-attacks to the poisoning of the Skripals.

“I think the risk these days is one of escalation inadvertently which might lead to miscalculation,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show.

“I don’t think anyone’s got any intention to go to war in the conventional sense of the term.”

But he added: “The noble institutions we created for noble reasons in 1945 were not necessarily created to deal with some of these challenges.”