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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent

Dover blames queues on spike in freight traffic not Brexit

Long line of lorries for Dover port along a coast road.
Lorries queue for the Port of Dover on January 18, 2022. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Long queues of lorries built up on approach roads to Dover this week because of a spike in freight traffic and not because of Brexit, the Port has said.

However, drivers on the road expressed fury over the delays, describing the situation as “absolute carnage” and blaming a mixture of delays in Brexit checks and Covid paperwork.

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