‘I’ve had vets chasing lorries down the motorway’: The ‘hell’ of post-Brexit paperwork

Brexit paperwork has left lorries stranded in Dover and Calais for weeks at a time. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

British vets have been forced to chase lorries down the motorway on their way to Dover due to the “pure hell” of Brexit paperwork needed by inspectors in Calais, MPs have been told.

Toby Ovens of Broughton Transport told the business and trade committee that Brexit has been a costly and logistic nightmare, and hopes of a reset with the EU represented “light at the end of the tunnel”.