The British government says there could be lines of 7,000 trucks at the English Channel and two-day waits to get into France immediately after the U.K. makes its economic break from the European Union at the end of the year.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.LONDON -- There there could be lines of 7,000 trucks at the English Channel and two-day waits to get into France immediately after the U.K. makes its economic break from the European Union at the end of the year, the British government said Wednesday, as it urged businesses to prepare for major change.
“They'd therefore be turned back by the French border authorities, clogging the Dover to Calais crossing” Gove told lawmakers, referring to the ports in southeast England and northern France. Such backups could lead to queues of up to 7,000 trucks on the British side, he said. Haulage and logistics companies accused the government of trying blame them for its lack of preparation for the changes coming in just over three months. The government's Smart Freight system, designed to reduce the risk of cargo delays, will still be in a testing phase in January. Work to recruit and train 50,000 new customs workers is nowhere near being finished.
“Today’s warnings are based on a reasonable worst-case scenario, but given we have a reasonable worst-case government, we have to assume that these scenarios will play out quite soon," Reeves said. A report by political research group U.K. in a Changing Europe estimated that, in the long run, the economic hit from a no-deal Brexit could be three times the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The British economy contracted by a fifth between March and May as the country went into lockdown, though it has since recovered some of that ground.
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