Emergency proposals to rescue the royal family during the Cold War have been 'repurposed' in recent weeks in preparation for a possibility of no-deal Brexit riots, The Sunday Times reports, citing an unidentified cabinet office source.

The plans were originally intended for an event of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the paper said. Plans would see the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh moved out of London to an unidentified location.

“If there were problems in London, clearly you would remove the royal family away from those key sites,” Dai Davies, an ex-police officer formerly in charge of royal protection, told the Times. Davies added that while this is unlikely, “the powers-that-be need to have contingency plans for any eventuality.”

Whitehall sources reportedly worry that the Queen is becoming “dangerously politicized” as a figure and could become a target for an angry public, though Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg dismissed the royal rescue plan as mere “wartime fantasy.”

“The Monarch’s place is always in the capital,” he said, “as the late Queen Mother, wife of George VI, made very clear during the Blitz.”