Travel Chaos at Dover Revives UK Argument Over Brexit Effect
- Coaches cleared after facing several hour delays at the port
- Passport office workers to begin five-week strike on Monday
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Travelers trying to leave the UK by ferry faced delays at the country’s busiest port on Sunday, as a weekend of travel chaos threatened to spill into Easter week and prompted a renewed debate about the impact of Brexit.
All coach passengers were cleared on Monday after waiting several hours within a “buffer zone” inside the port before they could transit passport control and cross the English Channel. Cars and freight were “free flowing,” ferry operator DFDS said. In an earlier statement, the Port of Dover had said wait times were four to six hours — by the time the backlog was wiped out, about 900 coaches were to pass through in three days.