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Admitted Brexit Was Causing Longer Processing Times at The Border
Admitted Brexit Was Causing Longer Processing Times at The Border
Dover after
She said: “I really sympathise with families and schoolchildren who are trying
to get to France for their Easter holidays. Nobody wants to be waiting hours
overnight at Dover in a coach.”
When asked if it was something that would happen every school holiday,
Braverman \
Also on Sky News, she said: “There are clearly a range of factors that have
gone into the delays here, and we’ve seen them before, but the government has
known for a very long time that they needed to make sure that there were
resources in place to deal with additional paperwork checks.
“The point is not whether we left the European Union or not. The point was
that we left with a government that made big promises and once again didn’t
deliver.
“And I really feel for the families that are trying to get away for an Easter
break, people who have been caught up in this chaos, people whose livelihoods
are threatened.
“And if the government got a grip, got down to brass tacks and started doing
their actual job, all these things could be avoided.”
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