Travellers face more chaos at Dover as France and UK trade blame over gridlock – live
UK foreign secretary says French understaffing at border to blame but Calais MP says more checks needed after Brexit
Yesterday, travellers queued for six hours to get through French border controls in Dover – and today could be even busier.
That’s according to Doug Bannister, the chief executive of the port of Dover.
It could be. We were expecting that today was going to be a busier day than yesterday.
Yesterday we processed about 8,500 cars going out. Today we were predicted to be around 10,000 so it is going to be a very busy day down here.
It’s certainly the case that the checks are more rigorous than they used to be. Prior to Brexit there was a deemed right of entry – we weren’t in Schengen but there were still very minimal checks... and frequently there were no French checks at all.
We’re now of course outside the EU and they’re entitled to treat us as they treat any other European traveller.
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