France shut the border with the UK over fears surrounding a new super-contagious strain of coronavirus that has emerged in the south east of Britain.
But, the decision has triggered huge tailbacks of lorries, with Kent effectively “becoming a lorry park”.
The situation is feared to only get worse as ITV’s Robert Peston wrote: “Eurotunnel expects to bring 2000 lorries into the UK and take none out today. Kent is becoming quite a lorry park”.
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