Emergency Brexit powers for lorry queues to be made permanent
Exclusive: ministers to make traffic provisions indefinite in expectation of further cross-Channel disruption
Operation Brock, a traffic management system designed to cope with queues of up to 13,000 lorries heading for mainland Europe across Kent, was meant to end by October 2021, after being extended once when the Brexit transition period ended in December 2020.
But ministers are planning to make the provisions indefinite by removing “sunset clauses” from the legislation that set out when the powers would expire
The change was published quietly in a consultation response on the government’s website during parliamentary recess while MPs were away from Westminster, with statutory instruments to be laid in September.
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