The leader of Kent county council is confident that no-deal disruption could be avoided at the Channel despite dire warnings in the government planning documents.
Lengthy delays at the Channel causing shortages of fresh food and other goods were among Operation Yellowhammer’s “reasonable worst case planning assumptions”published late yesterday.
Paul Carter backed government claims that there had been “accelerated progress” since the August 2 document, however.
Asked by the BBC whether he was worried about a no-deal Brexit, he said today: “As long as we get satisfactory answers and progress on how the operating model for customs clearance is going to work and communicate that to the logistics haulage industry, I am pretty confident that we can avoid disruption in Kent. ”
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