Port of Dover officials are scrambling to avoid a repeat of travel chaos at Easter after holidaymakers were trapped in queues of up to 20-hours over the weekend
were among those stuck overnight on coaches at Dover. Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper described the jams snaking out of the port as “a total nightmare for people trying to travel”.
A spokesperson added: “Along with the final coaches being processed through the port, all tourist cars and freight vehicles were also processed successfully. “It is particularly the lack of planning around coach parties and that really affects schoolchildren as well. “I really don’t understand the situation. Apparently, the French [officials] who check your passports, there are only two of them.
“We went into the French border post, and there were just three people in there. Seven hundred coaches with 40 people that’s about 25,000 people, probably,” he said.
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