Digested week: Dover Easter queues? It’s the bad weather, stupid | John Crace

I could have sworn we had stormy seas before Brexit and there weren’t long delays – but maybe I’m imagining things

At the weekend, Suella Braverman and various other Tory MPs on Twitter were trying to persuade us not to believe the evidence of our own eyes. The long queues of coaches and cars at Dover were nothing to do with Brexit, they insisted. Rather, they had been caused by the weather being nasty and more people choosing to travel than expected. Just imagine expecting calm seas and hot sun on the first weekend in April. And being taken by surprise by more traffic at the start of the Easter holidays. I could have sworn we had bad weather and Easter holidays before we left the EU and there weren’t long delays, but maybe I’m just imagining things.

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