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Liz Truss blames Dover gridlock on French authoritiesLiz Truss has blamed French authorities as the reason for the ongoing chaos at Dover port, and denies Brexit has anything to do with it.Queues have been long and slow for a number of days.“The fact is that the French authorities have not put enough people on the border, and I’m in touch with the French authorities,” she said during a campaign rally in Kent.“I’m very clear that we need to see action from them to resolve the terrible situation that people are facing.”
British Ports Association denies Liz Truss' claim Brexit isn't causing Dover chaosMark Simmonds, director of policy at the British Ports Association has said Brexit is responsible for delays at Dover, just hours after Liz Truss blamed the French authorities.Extra post-Brexit border checks have seen travellers and truckers waiting up to 18 hours."There's a harder border than there was before," Simmonds says. "We've been saying for years that extra checks would have an impact on capacity at certain ports.”He did however add that returning traffic shouldn't experience delays.
‘Brexit to blame’ for travel gridlock at Dover, union saysThis weekend’s traffic chaos in Dover is a “predictable” consequence of Brexit as France “takes back control” of its border, an immigration union chief has said.Immigration Services Union general secretary Lucy Moreton said that disruption of this kind was only to be expected following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that Brexit meant French checks on UK travellers had been stepped up from the “minimal” controls familiar from the EU period.“It’s certainly the case that the checks are more rigorous than they used to be prior to Brexit,” she said. “We’re now of course outside the EU, and they’re entitled to treat us as they treat any other non-European traveller. So they do the same level of checks on us as we do - and have always done in fact - on them.”Ms Moreton added: “This isn’t our border that we’ve taken back control of. In fact, France has taken back control of its border in this respect.“This is democracy. There was a vote. Some people voted for it. Some people voted against it. This is one of the outcomes that was reasonably predictable. And this is the time that it’s chosen to bite.”
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Charge patients for hospital stays to help fund NHS, says reportPatients would be charged £8 a day when in hospital under proposals from a former health service boss to raise more money for the NHS.Prof Stephen Smith is also urging ministers to bring in charges of £4 to £8 to help cover the costs of medical equipment that patients need, such as hearing aids and walking devices.People over 60 should also start paying for their prescriptions, to help raise more revenue for an underfunded NHS that is under “unsustainable” pressure from rising demand, said Smith.Rising public dissatisfaction with the health service and patients’ unprecedented waits for GP care, ambulances and routine operations mean ministers need to urgently instigate a review of how the NHS is funded, which should include the creation of “co-payments” for some services.However, Dr John Puntis, the co-chair of the campaign group Keep Our NHS Public, accused Smith of advancing “harebrained ideas” and “zombie policies” which would end the basis on which the service has operated since its creation in 1948, including that it is paid for by general taxation.
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