Scoop: Michael Gove has written to the U.K. border industry warning of 7,000-truck-long queues in a reasonable worst-case Brexit scenario 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The letter has further stark warnings:
- Flow of freight down 60%-80% between Dover-Calais
- Up to 70% of trucks not ready for EU border checks
Worrying stuff for the end of the transition period 2/
Hat-tip to @lisaocarroll, who saw the civil service report that contained these warnings last week, and which Gove is now publicly endorsing 3/ theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
Logistics sources say Gove's intervention is a bid to push responsibility on to hauliers, and distance gov from any chaos that may come.
``The biggest potential cause of disruption are traders not being ready,'' Gove's letter says. ``It is essential that traders act now'' 4/
Which chimes with George Eustice today, who was suggesting that any disruption will not be the fault of UK government -- in his case, it was suggesting it would be fault of the EU ends/
There's some real anger from hauliers about Gove's Brexit letter. See this from @BIFA - says government `getting their retaliation in', painting them as `villains' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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