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Huge waits at border crossings.

Within a day of a no-deal Brexit, truck traffic across the English Channel could be reduced by 40 percent to 60 percent, according to the document, because of new mandatory controls in France.

Trucks crossing the English Channel from Dover to France could face waits of up to two-and-a-half days, and it could take three months to work out new procedures to ease the delays.

The delays would not just inconvenience those attempting to cross the border, they could have a trickle-down impact across the southeast of England. Regional traffic disruptions caused by border delays could impair fuel distribution, with the potential to “disrupt fuel supply in London and the South-East.”

Risk for the health care industry.

Because so many of Britain’s medicines and medical products are imported from the Continent, and many medicines have a limited shelf life, shortages of certain items are a real possibility.

The adult social care market is also at risk, the report says, because of an expected burst of inflation that could stretch the finances of the providers of elder care.

Protests and riots are a possibility.

The document raises concerns of civil unrest. “Protests and counter-protests will take place across the U.K. and may absorb significant amounts of police resource,” it states. “There may also be a rise in public disorder and community tensions.”