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Brexit letter warns of 7,000-truck queues in Kent
Exporters to the EU face 7,000-truck-long queues in Kent and two-day delays to trade after the Brexit transition period ends, the government has warned.
Imports will also be disrupted in January, according to a letter from cabinet minister Michael Gove to the freight industry, seen by BBC News.
It also raises the prospect of a winter spike in Covid-19 leading to absences of port and border staff.
The transition period is due to expire at the end of the year.
Mr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, responsible for no-deal planning, wrote to logistics groups with the government's "reasonable worst-case scenario" planning for when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union rules on 1 January.
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Image copyrightREUTERSExporters to the EU face 7,000-truck-long queues in Kent and two-day delays to trade after the Brexit transition period ends, the government has warned.
Imports will also be disrupted in January, according to a letter from cabinet minister Michael Gove to the freight industry, seen by BBC News.
It also raises the prospect of a winter spike in Covid-19 leading to absences of port and border staff.
The transition period is due to expire at the end of the year.
Mr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, responsible for no-deal planning, wrote to logistics groups with the government's "reasonable worst-case scenario" planning for when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union rules on 1 January.
Reasonable worst case scenario? ...what does that even mean? It's a worse case scenario or not, reasonable is not a word that is needed.
It’ll be the hauliers’ fault if it’s not the EU’s. It’s important to get the message out there now that it’s definitely, definitely not our government’s fault if it all goes tits up which it definitely won’t anyway and if you suggest it might you’re just a remoaner undermining Brexit.
Since the EU sells more to us, than we sell to them, the queues in France will surely be reciprocally at least as bad
It’s some of the more sound thinking by the standards of this government since this thing began tbf. Shame they didn’t have such wisdom in February but then it was always a tough call between doing something and sitting there hoping it would miraculously go away.
Good work buy Starmer again. That stupid lying **** johnson wont be around for much longer. The Tories surely can see how totally inept he is.
If you were going to invest your kids inheritance, would you put it in the hands of someone who could talk and explain the what's why's and where's or would you give it to someone who had a history of bad investments but had a bit of charisma?