Port of Dover clears backlog after 18-hour queue chaos at border control but concerns grow ahead of Easter weekend
DFDS said on Friday: "The queues at Dover today have been as a result of bad weather causing delays to sailings, combined with high volumes of traffic, and particularly coach groups.
"It has also been working with coach operators to speed up the check in process for coach passengers."The home secretary Suella Braverman rejected suggestions that delays at the Port of Dover can be put down to Brexit, saying that in general "things have been operating very smoothly at the border". But shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy criticised the government for not having a plan post-Brexit.
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