Oh dear, he seems to have got it into his head that we're an island! Checks - of course, at the border (and we're talking Eastern Docks and Cheriton here, not, for example, the Motis facility) - as few as possible. At this rate it stands to be wholly avoidably worse than what we had before completion of the Single Market on 31.12.1992 and what the French are preparing now.
I do so hope that this is sloppy journalism, but...
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