UK foreign secretary says French understaffing at border to blame but Calais MP says more checks needed after Brexit
Good morning. For a second day running, people hoping to travel through Kent to France are facing huge queues and hours of delays as a row over who is responsible for the gridlock at the port of Dover grows.
On Friday – one of the busiest periods for foreign travel from the UK as most schools in England and Wales break up for summer – people queued in the cars for over six hours to pass through border control.
This awful situation should have been entirely avoidable and is unacceptable.
We need action from France to build up capacity at the border to limit any further disruption for British tourists and to ensure this appalling situation is avoided in future.
This is an aftermath of Brexit. We have to run more checks than before.
