France rejects blame for Dover gridlock, saying it is 'not responsible for Brexit'

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Source: The Guardian

France rejects blame for Dover gridlock, saying it is ‘not responsible for Brexit’

Travellers told to allow three to four hours to pass through security and French border checks at port

Miranda Bryant and Jon Henley
Sat 23 Jul 2022 13.03 EDT
First published on Sat 23 Jul 2022 07.56 EDT

French authorities have hit back at claims by the Port of Dover that French border control staff were to blame for a second day of hours-long delays, saying: “France is not responsible for Brexit.”

It came after the port blamed delays on insufficient border staff at police aux frontières.

The French transport minister – and the former Europe minister – Clément Beaune tweeted on Saturday afternoon that French authorities were “mobilised to control our borders and facilitate traffic as much as possible”.

Beaune, a close ally of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said he had had a “constructive” exchange with his British counterpart Grant Shapps over the issue.

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