UK Port Blames 6-hour Queues on ‘Inadequate’ French Border Staffing

UK Port Blames 6-hour Queues on ‘Inadequate’ French Border Staffing
Cars queue at the Port of Dover in Kent, southeast England, on July 22, 2022. Gareth Fuller/PA Media
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The UK’s Port of Dover has criticised the French authorities for “woefully inadequate” staffing for border control, which has left thousands of holidaymakers stuck in six-hour queues at the border.

The port authorities said they had made meticulous preparations for post-Brexit border checks, and blamed their French counterparts for allocating “insufficient” resources to deal with the expected surge in traveller numbers.