It will take a few days to unblock the Port of Dover, a UK minister said on Wednesday. Drivers are growing impatient as thousands of lorries have been stranded in Kent since the French government on Sunday suspended all travel from the UK for two days, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a new variant of the CCP virus found in the UK could be 70 percent more transmissible. Operation Brock—a contingent trafficking system in case of cross-Channel disruption after Brexit—was deployed on Monday to divert the lorries. Britain and France have reached an agreement on reopening the border, but there’s “quite a lot of work to do” to go through the backlogs, according to local government minister Robert Jenrick. “I think it will take a few days to work our way through,” Jenrick told Sky News on Wednesday. Jenrick said that just under 3,000 HGVs were parked at Manston Airport—a closed airport …
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