Brexit: UK assumes French plans 'will ease no-deal chaos'
The government is assuming that French preparations for customs and regulatory checks have markedly decreased the anticipated trade disruption from a no-deal Brexit, the BBC has learned.
But the assumption, the basis for a lot of the government's no-deal planning, has been upgraded twice recently,Last year the government's original"reasonable worst case scenario" for no deal was that for three to six months, 75-87% of"flow" across the"short straits" would be interrupted and forced to join queues on motorways approaching the Channel Tunnel and ports.
This was principally because of the new preparations made on the French side of the border. For example, the Eurotunnel facility for UK freight can check nine lorries at the same time and provides parking for 100 vehicles. Better than it was, but still meaning thousands of lorries stuck on motorways in Kent and around Calais, blocking and delaying crucial trade. Even at this improved rate of flow, the available spaces for emergency lorry parking on the M20 and at disused airfields, would fill up over a fortnight, better than the two or three days assumed last year.
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