Important Commons Committee on border delays:

Road Haulage Assoc: 1000s lorries waiting “catastrophic & unacceptable”...“no confidence, never had confidence drivers will be looked after” need hygiene facilities/food, like France.
Manston mixing could cause “worse Covid problems”

RHA - how we treat foreign hauliers so badly is a “shame on this country”... “we are creating a hostile environment” for foreign hauliers, fining them for going into Kent when they “have nowhere else to go” - need to be v careful, they wont come

Food and drink fed: “For the Scottish seafood industry millions of pounds are going down the drain...” no options “short of opening a lobster shack on the M20 and selling to the truckers”

RHA on Govt stat re only a fifth of trade “I would be surprised if it was less than 90% of fresh food coming from Europe is on the Dover straits... the “20%” is a misleading number”

British Retail consortium reassure on current stocks in shops, saying you will get pics of queues as shops are Covid-compliant & tier 4 people having to make new plans.. but stocks in the country... shelving issues could emerge after 27th Dec though they say, if block continues

Food & Drink Federation boss Wright, not too happy with manner of Government’s announcement “late on a Saturday” that caused everybody, “not just the French” to react at great speed