Ministers have privately urged Brussels to further ease new post-Brexit border rules amid growing concerns they could plunge the great summer getaway into chaos, it emerged today.
Heidi Alexander, the Transport Secretary, is understood to have told Eurocrats to show ‘pragmatism’ and be ‘flexible’ to avoid UK holidaymakers facing queues of five hours or more from this weekend.
During a ‘candid’ meeting on Tuesday with the bloc’s transport chief, she is understood to have called for measures which allow EU countries to suspend the new rules when queues build up to be extended beyond the summer. They currently expire in September.
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