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you’ll be aware of the saga of Chris Grayling and his No Deal ferries contracts, which ended up costing taxpayers £80m.

David Lidington has just announced that he has secured back-up ferry capacity without any cost at all: shurely shome mishtake

parliament.uk/writtenstateme…
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Seaborne Freight, how I missed writing about you
turns out there is a reason why capacity is harder to secure for spring rather than summer: at the end of winter - ie March - the ships are crammed with seasonal fruit and veg from Europe, in October there is more space....at least this is my guidance from within Whitehall
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